Change sender name using sendmail

[Fuad_1]

Hi,

How to change the sender name using sendmail?

Thanks.

[Mel Burslan]

By saying "change sender name", I am assuming that you meant the email address where the email is coming from.

Example:

you are

root@server.domain.com

and you want your email messages sender to look like

someuser@somedomain.com

if this assumption is right, this should fix your problem

(echo "From: alibaba@somedomain.com";echo " ";cat file2send)|sendmail -v recipient@domain.com

Hope this helps

[Arunvijai_4 · Accepted solution]

You can do it using mailx easily,

mailx -r someone@somewhere.com -s "whatever" email_address.

Also, you can DM macro in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf

# Masquerade as (DM): #
# #
# If you wish to have mail appear to be from some host or location other than the loacl host, set macro M to the name you wish to masquerade as. This is also know as site hiding and was set using the DY macro in previous releases of hp-ux.

# who I masquerade as (null for no masquerading) (see also $=M)
DMcompany.com

-Arun

[Fuad_1]

Thanks Arunvijai.