Re: Mailutils+nullmailer: sender full name
On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 05:43:55PM +0200, Gertjan Klein wrote:
> I am configuring a new VPS, and decided to try nullmailer to send mail.
> I don't want to receive mail on the VPS, I just want the mail the system
> generates to end up in my mailbox elsewhere. This works, but the mail
> from address looks like this: "gklein <gklein@parvos.nl>". This irks me.
> My account has my full name configured;
Where exactly is the full name configured?
> why isn't it used?
That is reason for the above question.
> I am testing this as follows:
>
> $ echo "this is a test" | mail -s Subject gklein@parvos.nl
Works for me ...
> I am unclear about which of GNU mailutils or nullmailer is responsible
> for this header. I've tried various things the internet suggested; none
> made any difference at all.
>
> While this is more an annoyance than a showstopper for me, I would like
> the From address to look like "My name <my@address>". Does anyone here
> know which program to persuade, and how to persuade it?
|$ command -v mail
|/usr/bin/mail
|$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/mail
|dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /usr/bin/mail
|$ ls -l /usr/bin/mail
|lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Oct 12 2012 /usr/bin/mail -> /etc/alternatives/mail
|$ ls -l /etc/alternatives/mail
|lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Oct 12 2012 /etc/alternatives/mail -> /usr/bin/bsd-mailx
|$ ls -l /usr/bin/bsd-mailx
|-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 112968 Apr 14 2022 /usr/bin/bsd-mailx
|$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/bsd-mailx
|bsd-mailx: /usr/bin/bsd-mailx
|$
Did it help?
> Kind regards,
> Gertjan.
Groeten
Geert Stappers
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