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Old 02-07-2010
Sending mail as another user (username masquerading)
I have sendmail as the smtp server. I want that all mails sent from user1 actually appears to come from user2(also should be reflected in mail header). How can i accomplish the task by tweaking sendmail or are there any other means to do so?
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Old 02-07-2010
Code:
/usr/lib/sendmail -fuser2  recipient <headers+text_of_email

Create the email including:

To: recipient@domain.com
From: user2
Reply-to: user2
Subject: aaaaa
text of email
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Old 02-07-2010
But the mail header is still reporting user1 in a particular section:

Received: (from user1@localhost)
by wiki.domain.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id o181fs8H032195
for recipient@domain.com; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 05:41:54 +0400

How to get rid of this portion of the header or masquerade this portion of the header to report user2 instead of user1?
Last edited by proactiveaditya; 02-07-2010 at 10:04 PM..
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Old 02-08-2010
Set up an alias for user1.
# 5  
Old 02-10-2010
@jgt

Thanks.
Could you please guide me on how to set up an alias for a linux user.

If you wanna mean /etc/alliases, then i am confused for the fact that its meant for incoming mails and not for outgoing ones.
 
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