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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat Problems sending mail: Difference between Mail and Mailx? Post 302850403 by MadeInGermany on Wednesday 4th of September 2013 04:07:04 PM
Old 09-04-2013
The -r option is not portable. Maybe on purpose because it's ideal for a spammer.
The default is the user who sends the mail, and the administrator put some rules to generate a sender address out of it. (And that's not safe against a professional spammer either.)
I like the old Unix mail or sendmail tools that do not even know a -s option, and you have to construct the mail header in SMTP style:
Code:
echo "\
Subject: $SUBJECT 
From: $FROM

$MESSAGE
" | mail $RECIPIENTS

NB an empty line indicates the end of the header section.
You can still try that with your advanced mail and mailx programs...
 

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claws-mail-extra-plugins

CLAWS-MAIL-EXTRA-PLUGINS(1)				      General Commands Manual				       CLAWS-MAIL-EXTRA-PLUGINS(1)

NAME

       claws-mail-extra-plugins -- Claws Mail extra plugins meta package.

DESCRIPTION

       claws-mail-extra-plugins is a meta package for installing all extra plugins for the Claws Mail mailer.

       See below for the corresponding manpages of each installed plugin.

SEE ALSO

       claws-mail-acpi-notifier  (1),  claws-mail-attach-remover  (1), claws-mail-cache-saver (1), claws-mail-etpan-privacy (1), claws-mail-feeds-
       reader (1), claws-mail-fetchinfo-plugin (1), claws-mail-html2-viewer (1), claws-mail-maildir-plugin  (1),  claws-mail-mailmbox-plugin  (1),
       claws-mail-multi-notifier  (1),	claws-mail-newmail-plugin (1), claws-mail-perl-filter (1), claws-mail-smime-plugin (1), claws-mail-vcalen-
       dar-plugin (1), claws-mail-synce-plugin (1), claws-mail-attach-warner (1), claws-mail (1).

	       http://www.claws-mail.org/plugins.php (link to URL http://www.claws-mail.org/plugins.php)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Ricardo Mones mones@debian.org for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted	to
       copy,  distribute  and/or  modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by
       the Free Software Foundation.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

														       CLAWS-MAIL-EXTRA-PLUGINS(1)
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