How to change sender name not email address when using the linux mail command for autosending mail

Question

Mailbox shows the sender name as  Apache   because the mail I am autosending is being sent from a Perl CGI program  How do I change it to something else

User · Answer

It depends on what sender address you are talking about. The sender address visble in the recipients mailprogramm is extracted from the "From:" Header. which can probably easily be set from your program.

If you are talking about the SMTP envelope sender address, you can pass the -f argument to the sendmail binary. Depending on the server configuration you may not be allowed to do that with the apache user.

from the sendmail manpage :

   -f <address>
                 This  option  sets  the  address  of the envelope sender of a
                 locally-generated message (also known as  the  return  path).
                 The  option  can normally be used only by a trusted user, but
                 untrusted_set_sender can be set to allow untrusted  users  to
                 use it. [...]

User · Answer

mail -s    echo -e  This is the subject nFrom  Paula  lt johny paula com gt  n Reply-to  1232564 yourserver com nContent-Type  text html n     milas josh gmail com  lt  htmlFileMessage txt   the above is my solution  just replace the  Paula  with any name you want e g Johny Bravo  any extra headers can be added just after the from and before the reply to   just make sure you know your headers syntax before adding them    this worked perfectly for me

User · Answer

You can use the  -r  option to set the sender address   mail -r me example com -s       In case you also want to include your real name in the from-field  you can use the following format  mail -r  me example com  My Name   -s  My Subject

User · Answer

You just need to add a From  header  By default there is none   echo  Test    mail -a  From  Someone  lt someone example com gt   other example com   You can add any custom headers using -a   echo  Test    mail -a  From  Someone  lt someone example com gt                        -a  Subject  This is a test                       -a  X-Custom-Header  yes  other example com

User · Answer

If no From  header is specified in the e-mail headers  the MTA uses the full name of the current user  in this case  Apache   You can edit full user names in  etc passwd

User · Answer

On Ubuntu 14 04 none of these suggestions worked  Postfix would override with the logged in system user as the sender  What worked was the following solution listed at this link --  Change outgoing mail address from root servername - rackspace sendgrid postfix  STEPS   1  Make sure this is set in  etc postfix main cf      smtp generic maps   hash  etc postfix generic   2  echo  www-data yourusername yourdomain com      etc postfix generic  3  sudo postmap  etc postfix generic  4  sudo service postfix restart

[linux] How to change sender name (not email address) when using the linux mail command for autosending mail?

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