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From:	Robert R Schneck-McConnell <schneck AT math DOT berkeley DOT edu>
Subject:	Re: Using ssmtp to send email as a different user (-f doesn't seem to be working)
Date:	Sat, 26 Mar 2005 04:59:31 +0000 (UTC)
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thomas revell wrote:
> Apologies if I'm missing something really obvious here, but I can't seem 
> to get ssmtp to use the -f option, to change the address to send from. My 
> situation is like this:

From a glance at the code without any real testing, it looks like it 
changes the From: header correctly, but doesn't give the right "MAIL 
FROM:" in the smtp communication.

Try downloading the source, changing the line in ssmtp.c 
        smtp_write(sock, "MAIL FROM:<%s>", uad);
to
        smtp_write(sock, "MAIL FROM:<%s>", from);
and see if that does the trick.

Note that this isn't really a Cygwin issue, you should probably submit 
further questions upstream at 
http://packages.debian.org/testing/mail/ssmtp

Someday I'll try to update the Cygwin package, by the way; but I've been 
very busy, so if anyone else is keen to maintain ssmtp, they are welcome 
to it.

Robert


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