On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 05:43:55PM +0200, Gertjan Klein wrote: > This works, but the mail > from address looks like this: "gklein <gkl...@parvos.nl>". This irks me. > My account has my full name configured; why isn't it used? I am testing > this as follows: > > $ echo "this is a test" | mail -s Subject gkl...@parvos.nl > > I am unclear about which of GNU mailutils or nullmailer is responsible > for this header. I've tried various things the internet suggested; none > made any difference at all. > > While this is more an annoyance than a showstopper for me, I would like > the From address to look like "My name <my@address>". Does anyone here > know which program to persuade, and how to persuade it?
You mean the "From:" header. This is provided by the MUA (Mail User Agent), which in your case is whatever program "mail" links to. On my system, mailx points to bsd-mailx: unicorn:~$ ls -l /etc/alternatives/mailx lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jan 12 2018 /etc/alternatives/mailx -> /usr/bin/bsd-mailx* The bsd-mailx(1) documentation is EXTREMELY confusing, and it took me 8 tries to get this, so I hope you appreciate it: unicorn:~$ cat .mailrc set from="Someone <m...@wooledge.org>" unicorn:~$ echo test8 | mailx -s test8 g...@wooledge.org This generates: Date: 17 Oct 2023 18:30:46 -0000 From: Someone <m...@wooledge.org> To: g...@wooledge.org Subject: test8 If you aren't using bsd-mailx, then you will have to figure out how to do this using whatever implementation you're using.
