topic Re: mailx sender's name in Operating System - HP-UX

mailx sender's name

WWY — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 04:10:28 GMT

Hi All,

I'd like to specific a sender's name instead of the default one. Could anyone tell me how I can do it.

My unix version:
HP-UX etjisux2 B.11.11 U 9000/800

Thanks,
Kevin

Re: mailx sender's name

Ivan Krastev — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 04:14:33 GMT

Try this:

sendmail -f sender@domain ...

Or rewrite senders names - http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90147/ch04s03.html#cciecbcb

regards,
ivan

Re: mailx sender's name

Wouter Jagers — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 04:15:47 GMT

Try the -r option to mailx:

# echo test | mailx -s "some subject" -r some@mailaddress.com recipient@email.com

Cheers,
Wout

Re: mailx sender's name

Yogeeraj_1 — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 07:13:42 GMT

hi Kevin,

e.g.

cat /etc/hosts |mailx -r "from name " -s "Mail subject" destname@domain.mu

in fact, you can specify *any* name/email address when specifying the value for the -r switch

hope this helps too!
kind regards
yogeeraj

Re: mailx sender's name

Doug O'Leary — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:36:47 GMT

Hey;

The options specified above work for individual runs. If you *always* want a user's name to be rewritten, you can use the genericstable. You may have to rebuild the sendmail.cf file to support it, but that's pretty easy. Let me know if you want specifics.

Once sendmail supports the genericstable, just create a file /etc/mail/genericstable with the format:

${source} ${rewrite}

For instance:

oleary dkoleary@olearycomputers.com

would rewrite any mail coming from oleary to appear as if it were coming from dkoleary@olearycomputers.com

Works pretty well.

Doug

Re: mailx sender's name

WWY — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:52:47 GMT

Many many thank for all of your answers!