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elcuco
Asked: 2010-03-12 06:02:06 +0800 CST

change from display name when sending mail from postfix

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I have this script which runs as root, and when it fails to do something it needs to send a mail using postfix (actually the regular mail command on Centos5).

The problem is that the "from" user in the email is "root", how can I change it to another user?

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Since you're using postfix, use the postfix sendmail drop-in:

    echo "this is the mail" | sendmail -F "Bogus User" -f [email protected] [email protected]
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  2. You can always create a new user on the system, and run the "mail" command using that user:

     su foo -c "echo blabla | mail foo@bar"
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