How to customize sender name in mailx command?

 
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Old 03-02-2016
How to customize sender name in mailx command?

Hi,

Is there anyway to customize the sender name when sending a mail from solaris or linux or any other unix box using mailx command?

Thanks in advance.
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Old 03-02-2016
Code:
mailx -r my@email.com

should work
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