I also just ran into a case where this would make my life much easier. Any idea on when we can expect this?
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to cron in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1750051 Title: cron doesn't support MAILFROM Status in cron package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in cron package in Debian: New Bug description: Ubuntu's cron version doesn't support setting MAILFROM to set the "From:" header of cron generated emails. This feature would be nice to have and bring parity with RHEL/CentOS which has it since RHEL 6: $ cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 6.6 (Final) $ man 5 crontab | grep -1 FROM doesn´t do aliasing, and UUCP usually doesn´t read its mail. If MAIL- FROM is defined (and non-empty), it will be used as the envelope sender address, otherwise, ‘‘root’’ will be used. $ apt-cache policy cron cron: Installed: 3.0pl1-128ubuntu2 Candidate: 3.0pl1-128ubuntu2 Version table: *** 3.0pl1-128ubuntu2 500 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: cron 3.0pl1-128ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-116.140-generic 4.4.98 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-116-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zcommon znvpair zavl ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.15 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Fri Feb 16 15:52:54 2018 InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-12-06 (436 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Beta amd64 (20161206) SourcePackage: cron UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cron/+bug/1750051/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
