Anacron does not support MAILFROM

[mlazze]

Unless I'm missing something obvious, MAILFROM works correctly in a crontab, but it gets ignored in an anacrontab.

Crontab example:

[email protected]
[email protected]
*  *  *  *  *  echo "error" 1>&2

This correctly sets From Header to [email protected].

While
Anacrontab example:

[email protected]
[email protected]
@daily       5       test              echo "error" 1>&2

This has From Header set to Anacron <root>.

Problem is, gmail blocks anacron email with reason 'From' header has non compliant domain name.

Mails are sent using sendmail, which is symlinked to msmtp.

Is Anacron supposed to ignore MAILFROM?

[t8m]

Yes, the support for MAILFROM in anacron is missing.

[lkraav]

@t8m is MAILFROM supposed to substitute environment variables?

MAILFROM=cron+$USER currently doesn't seem to be substituted.

[t8m]

No, unfortunately not.