Re: perl and ssmtp

[Timmy Douglas <tdouglas@home.com>]

On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 03:31:04PM -0400, phiLLip maDDux II wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a perl program that makes a call to ssmtp on the system to send
> out an email. When I send out the email I specify the from:  however it
> does not work, it always makes it look like the email came from
> www-data@server.edu.
> 
> Does anybody have any suggestions of what I should look for? Do I need
> to give more info to help determine the problem?
> 
> Thank you!
> 

is this in your /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf?


# Set this to never rewrite the From: line (unless not given) and to
# use that address in the from line of the envelope.
FromLineOverride=YES


i think that should work.