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Remove host name from sender description mailx

When I use this to send a mail I get the sender address as (root)<[email protected]> where root is the host name .

mailx -s 'Spammers `date -d "-1 days" +%Y-%m-%d`' [email protected],[email protected] -- -r '[email protected]'

Either I want to remove the host name completely in the sender description or specify another name.

Any help is appreciated.

Update:

I have also tried the same as mentioned by Rune in this question How set the From email address for mailx command? which doesn't seem to work.

mailx -s 'Spammers `date -d "-1 days" +%Y-%m-%d`' [email protected],[email protected] -- -r '[email protected] (Anonymous)'
Solution

  • This is what I had done to solve it. I just added -F 'Sender Name'

    mailx -s 'Spammers `date -d "-1 days" +%Y-%m-%d`' [email protected],[email protected] -- -F 'Spam Alert' -r '[email protected]'