On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 15:51:06 +0100, Rakotomandimby Mihamina <mihamina.rakotomandimby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > I sometimes send mail through command line interface this way: > > $ print "short message" | mail -s "your log/pass" test@xxxxxxx > > The problem is the "From:" address: it is a bit ugly. > I would like to set the "From:" address of that system user to be a more > esthetic one. > I am running Fedora Core 4, and postfix-2.2.2 (Fedora build) > > I heard about a file named /etc/mailaddress or something like that but I > cant find it out on google, or in the archives (I dont remember the > exact name). I think in that file I just have to fill it like this: > > [...] > user1 : localpart@xxxxxxx > [...] > > And then it's OK. But i really lost the file name, and dont know if it > would be efficient on my Fedora. You could inject the mail using postfix's injection program. (The equivalent of sendmail or qmail-inject.) This allows you to include headers along with the body of the message. The other option is to use a more powerful mail client such as mutt to send the message. Something like: print "short message" | mutt -e 'set from="This is a test <test>"' -s "your log/pass" test@xxxxxxx
