If I am understanding you correctly, you are asking how to come up with a correct value, 'me@here.com' for the From argument below: 
  %mail = ( To      => 'you@there.com',
            From    => 'me@here.com',
            Message => "This is a very short message"
           );

  sendmail(%mail) or die $Mail::Sendmail::error;

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I do not think it is possible to do this reliably every time - although another monk may well correct me on that. How to get that email address will differ from environment to environment.

I am lucky, since in my environment users' email addresses take the form firstname.lastname@domain.com, so I can use the Unix `ypcat passwd` to find their full name, and construct their email address from that.

If this is not possible, then perhaps a configuration file that maps userids to full email addresses is maybe the easiest (with all of its inherent maintenance headaches).

In reply to Re: Where is the Email coming from? by bm
in thread Where is the Email coming from? by bobdeath

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