Recently CIHOST.com has run into problems with AOL whereby AOL started rejecting e-mail from any of CIHOST's network (propagation.net). There now seems to be an agreement between the two that as long as some rules are followed mail can be accepted by AOL. One of those rules is that scripts, such as with perl, cannot use the user "nobody" to send e-mails to AOL users.

The question I have is how can I configure my script to use a user other than "nobody"?
When I send an e-mail using MIME::LITE or Mail::Mailer, my maillog shows the two e-mail addresses that were sent, one to AOL user and one to a Yahoo user. The AOL e-mail never gets to its destination but I never see an error in my spooler. The Yahoo e-mail gets to the user successfully. 

Oct 29 21:43:37 xxxxxx sendmail[24352]: i9U2hb924350: to=someuser@aol.
+com, ctladdr=nobody (99/99), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=
+relay, pri=98308, relay=mail.mx2.propagation.net. [63.249.128.130], d
+sn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (Ok: queued as 8DDA7AFBC8)

Oct 29 21:43:48 xxxxxx sendmail[24352]: i9U2hb924350: to=someuser@yaho
+o.com, ctladdr=nobody (99/99), delay=00:00:11, xdelay=00:00:11, maile
+r=esmtp, pri=98308, relay=mx3.mail.yahoo.com. [64.156.215.7], dsn=2.0
+.0, stat=Sent (ok dirdel 2/0)

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Here is the snippet from my Perl program:

my $msg = MIME::Lite->new(  
                 To      => 'someuser@aol.com',  
                 From    => 'admin@server.com',  
                 Subject =>'some subject',  
                 Type    =>'multipart/related'  
                 );  
    $msg->attach(Type => 'text/html',  
                 Data => qq{ 

                 (html goes here) 

                 }  
                 );  
    $msg->send();

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FYI, sendmail from the command line to an AOL user does work when I am logged on as root or another user.

In reply to Using "nobody" to send e-mail by db2admin

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