[Bug 1750051] Re: cron doesn't support MAILFROM

[Brian Murray]

** Tags added: bionic

** Changed in: cron (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Triaged

** Changed in: cron (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

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Title:
  cron doesn't support MAILFROM

Status in cron package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Ubuntu's cron version doesn't support setting MAILFROM to set the
  "From:" header of cron generated emails. This feature would be nice to
  have and bring parity with RHEL/CentOS which has it since RHEL 6:

  $ cat /etc/redhat-release 
  CentOS release 6.6 (Final)

  $ man 5 crontab | grep -1 FROM
         doesn´t do aliasing, and UUCP usually doesn´t read its mail.  If  MAIL-
         FROM is defined (and non-empty), it will be used as the envelope sender
         address, otherwise, ‘‘root’’ will be used.

  $ apt-cache policy cron
  cron:
    Installed: 3.0pl1-128ubuntu2
    Candidate: 3.0pl1-128ubuntu2
    Version table:
   *** 3.0pl1-128ubuntu2 500
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: cron 3.0pl1-128ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-116.140-generic 4.4.98
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-116-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zcommon znvpair zavl
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.15
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Fri Feb 16 15:52:54 2018
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-12-06 (436 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Beta amd64 (20161206)
  SourcePackage: cron
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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