Re: mailing

From: David J. Hughes (bambi@hughes.com.au)
Date: Wed Oct 06 1999 - 22:01:03 EST


On Wed, 29 Sep 1999 brew@theMode.com wrote:

> I know you can specify the from header (and other headers, too) using
> sendmail from the command line, and most likely you can do it when you
> call sendmail as nobody via your Apache server.

Sendmail will only allow you to do this sort of thing if it is run as root
so it may not be an option from a "nobody" owned cgi.

> If you are using perl there are a couple different perl modules to
> send mail also, check them out on the CPAN.

If the module does direct SMTP into a local MTA, such as sendmail, you
shuold be OK.

Bambi
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