Specify the from user when sending email using the mail command
Solution 1:
You can specify any extra header you may need with -a
$mail -s "Some random subject" -a "From: [email protected]" [email protected]
Solution 2:
http://www.mindspill.org/962 seems to have a solution.
Essentially:
echo "This is the main body of the mail" | mail -s "Subject of the Email" [email protected] -- -f [email protected]
Solution 3:
mail -r [email protected] -R [email protected]
-r = from-addr -R = reply-to addr
The author has indicated his version of mail doesn't support this flag. But if you have a version that does this works fine.
Solution 4:
When sending over SMTP, the mail
man page advises to set the from
variable, in this way (Tested on CentOS 6):
mail -s Subject -S [email protected] [email protected]
You could also attach a file using the -a
option:
mail -s Subject -S [email protected] -a path_to_attachement [email protected]
Solution 5:
None of these worked for me (Ubuntu 12.04) but finally with trial & error I got:
echo 'my message blabla\nSecond line (optional of course)' |
mail -s "Your message title"
-r 'Your full name<[email protected]>'
-Sreplyto="[email protected]"
[email protected][,[email protected]]
(all in one line, there is no space in "-Sreplyto")
I got this mail command from:
apt-get install mailutils