Re: Mailutils+nullmailer: sender full name
On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 05:43:55PM +0200, Gertjan Klein wrote:
> This works, but the mail
> from address looks like this: "gklein <gklein@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 gklein@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 <me@wooledge.org>"
unicorn:~$ echo test8 | mailx -s test8 greg@wooledge.org
This generates:
Date: 17 Oct 2023 18:30:46 -0000
From: Someone <me@wooledge.org>
To: greg@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.
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