Mail command

[felix001]

Im using the mail command to send emails from my shell. Everything is working fine but i cannot seem to change the sent from name.

Im using the command ...

HDD=$(df | awk ' NR>3 (S=$5) (M=$6) { if (S>10) print "Your Systems "M" is """S" Full" } ') ; [[ $HDD ]] && echo "$HDD" | mail -s "Hard-Drives Full" email###### -- -f FROM###### >/dev/null

But my emails are still coming from root ??

Any Ideas ??

[Lazydog]

The mail command uses the send name of the user executing the command. I'm sure you are using this command in a cron job. All you need to do is change the executing user to have the mail come from another user. But I don't understand why this would be a problem.

[felix001]

its not a major problem but it would be nice to see my emails in my inbox coming from something other then "root".

i just thought there was a simple switch you could use to change the sent from user,

[nmset]

You may try this :

Edit your nail.rc file, perhaps /etc/nail.rc

Add these lines :

account test {
set from="fancy@valid.domain"
set smtp="your.smtp.server"
}

In your script, add the supplementary parameter

-A test

to your mail command.

Works for me using postfix.