how can I set the "from:" field when using the mail linux command

[Alexandros Droseltis]

On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 08:44:36PM +0200, Steve Stavropoulos wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Michael Iatrou wrote:
> 
> > <wild guess>
> > Μήπως το στοιχειώδες:
> > 
> >     $ cat some_file | mail -r foo at bar.gr kapios at hol.gr
> > 
> > σου κάνει;
> > </wild guess>
> > 
> 
>  Kala, pou thn brhkes thn option -r sto mail(1)?

# ls -l `which mail`
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 4 2004-12-16 13:12 /usr/bin/mail -> nail

Από το man 1 nail:

       -r address
              Sets  the From address. Overrides any from variable specified in
              environment or startup files.  Tilde escapes are disabled.   The
              -r  address options are passed to the mail transfer agent unless
              SMTP is used.

# nail -V
nail 11.4 8/29/04

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