On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 11:39:41AM +0100, Declan Grady wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to have mutt send a mail from a different name.
> I have a cronjob (as root) which sends an email, but I dont want it to
> appear as from root.
>> I googlied and found i can use a .muttrc file to set the from email
> address, but it still appears as the name "root", but with the new email
> address.
>> Do i really have to run the cronjob as that user (its actually not a
> user, its an email alias in sendmail's aliases file)
>> I'm sure its an easy one, but cannot find it in man or in googlie... any
> ideas.
from a command line I just used:
mailx -s "Subject" -a 'From: Brian Brazil <xxxxxx at xxxxx.com>' to at addrss < email
Brian
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