mailx help: Alias name in the "from" address

[svivekh]

Hi all,

I am using "mailx" command for sending mail in unix system. When i send a mail from unix (login name is "test&quot i am getting the "from" address in the mail as "test@SMTP001-5@company.com". I need something like this

Administrator (test@SMTP001-5@company.com)

Basically i need to have "administrator" in the "from" address instead of "test@SMTP001-5@company.com".

Please help. Suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Thanks in Advance.


Regards
Vivek

 

[alarge23]

I am having the same problem now as svivekh. I can not find any examples of this.

Any ideas?

 

[SamBones]

With [tt]mailx[/tt] there is a switch to set the "Reply To" field. You can't specify just anything, but you can give a different email address that from what it was sent from.

cat msg.txt | mailx -s "Subject" -r Admin@company.com someone@host.com

This would have the reply to be [tt]Admin@company.com[/tt], no matter which userid sent it. This is good when you have a cron job sending emails and you don't want replies being sent to it, but to somewhere else where you can get the reply.

Hope this helps.

 

[Mag0007]

If not try changing the DM setting in sendmail.cf file