Re: [hylafax-users] a question about the email-address in sendfax

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andreas Meyer wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb:
>
>   
> > Andreas Meyer wrote:
> >     
> > > I wonder how and where the email-address is built that sendfax uses in notifications.
> > > If I insert %email_f in the sendfax-string, an email-address is used which I don't
> > > know where it comes from.
> > > If I don't specify %email_f in the sendfax-string it seems that the username
> > > of the logged in user and the hostname is concatenated and used as email-address.
> > >
> > > Where does sendfax takes this email-address from when %email_f is specified?
> > > I hope this is not offtopic and it would be great if someone could answer
> > > my question.
> > >       
> > It gets stored in "mailaddr" in the job queue file (in 
> > /var/spool/hylafax/etc/sendq)
> >     
>
> But how does hylafax or sendfax know this email address?

It comes from the "-f" parameter on the sendfax command-line or 
otherwise from the system... often the username you're logged-in as and 
then the domain is added by the mail system.

> If I specify
> %email_f

Well, I don't even know what %email_f is.  Where did you learn to call 
it "%email_f" ?

Thanks,

Lee.


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