UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi

I'd like to have a "From" such as the company name or my name instead of the the user@domain.name while using mailx.

Please let me know how I can achieve that.

Also, Im using uuencode and plaintext, so the mail goes with body and attachment. So any solution has to take this into consideration.

Thanks!!

mailx creates the from header using system information, to prevent mail spoofing.

You can use sendmail directly, which will let you change "From"

use the -r option of mailx

mailx -r <address> does not change the From headers, according my man page....

Maybe we're talking about different things. My bad.
I was referring to changing the actual smtp headers. It will make change:

Code:

From: jmcnama@someplace.com
to
From: Jim

But the jmcnama part isn't lost. It's still in the header.
Example:

Code:

"echo "hi there" | mailx -r 'jim your buddy' -s 'test of dash r' jmcnama@somewhere.com

Gives this on the receiving end - a linux box in this case
+ N  18 Sep  1 jim.your.buddy@somewhere.com        (1743) test of dash r

i think..

the string that is specified with -r option will be displayed as the "From" Clause in any of the mail client used to view the mail received ...

Once you had used mailx... could you please check in the administrative logs ( i checked in /var/adm/messages for Sun Solaris) .. with -r option in mailx there would be a warning message that sender is being reset ...