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Howto change “From” in procmail respondr

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Hello, I’m running sendmail with the following procmail recipe. It works fine, but it addresses itself from ‘root@mypc.mydomain’. I’d rather have it address itself from something like autoresponder@mypc.mydomain, because some folks don’t get the root thing…

:0 Whc: me.lock
* $^To:.*me
* !^FROM_DAEMON
* !^X-Loop: me@myisp.provider
| formail -rD 8192 me.cache
:0 ehc
| (formail -rI”Precedence: junk” \
-A”X-Loop: me@myisp.provider ” ; \
echo “I received your mail,”; \
echo “Thanks very much.”; \
echo “– “; cat $HOME/.signature \
) | $SENDMAIL -oi -t

This a basic auto-responder recipe. But I can’t decipher the man pages to figure out how to overide the “from”. Thanks in advance.
Keith Stewart

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Howto change “From” in procmail respondr

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Use formail option “-I”, i.e. in your example, use something like this:

formail -r -I”Precedence: junk” \
-I”From: foo@bar.org” \
(and so on as in your example.

-I will remove original “From:” header and substitue it with provided by you.HTH, HAND

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In case anyone is interested, the order of the parameters seems to be important. In the following, if I put the -I line after the -A line, then it would blow with the ‘from: root…’, but as it stands now – works fine!

| (formail -rI”Precedence: junk” \
-I”From: AutoResponder ” ; \
-A”X-Loop: me@myisp.provider ” ; \

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