Setting reply-to: for mailx in .mailrc

[Barton Fisk]

On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 19:15:33 -0700, Susan Mathews
<smathews@socrates.berkeley.edu> wrote:

> Using mailx you can set the "reply-to:" using -r, e.g.:
> mailx -s "subject" -r othermailaddress@machine toperson@machine < filein
>
> But I'd like to set it for all the email going out of my account (so I
> can not receive mail on that account). I can do this in the .pinerc. On
> other unices you can set a REPLYTO environment variable which mailx will
> read. This doesn't seem to work on SunOS 5.8. Any ideas on what I could
> put in the .mailrc to set the "reply-to:" mail header?
> Susan Mathews UC Berkeley
>

If your using sendmail for your MTA, check the genericstable feature out.

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[Florian Stiassny]

In article [email]F7B03590@socrates.berkeley.edu[/email], Susan Mathews <smathews@socrates.berkeley.edu> writes:

>Using mailx you can set the "reply-to:" using -r, e.g.:
>mailx -s "subject" -r othermailaddress@machine toperson@machine < filein
>
>But I'd like to set it for all the email going out of my account (so I
>can not receive mail on that account). I can do this in the .pinerc. On
>other unices you can set a REPLYTO environment variable which mailx will
>read. This doesn't seem to work on SunOS 5.8. Any ideas on what I could
>put in the .mailrc to set the "reply-to:" mail header?
> Susan Mathews UC Berkeley
>

I do it this way:

in a script called MySendmail:
(echo "From: othermailaddress@machine" ; cat ) | /usr/lib/sendmail $@

in ~/.mailrc
set sendmail=<path>/MySendmail


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