Re: Mailutils+nullmailer: sender full name
Op 17-10-2023 om 19:10 schreef Geert Stappers:
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?
I meant the user account on that machine:
gklein@parvos:~$ cat /etc/passwd | grep gklein
gklein:x:1000:1000:Gertjan Klein,,,:/home/gklein:/bin/bash
|$ 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?
That shows that your mail executable is actually bsd-mailx. If you also
use nullmailer, that means mailutils is the culprit here:
gklein@parvos:~$ command -v mail
/usr/bin/mail
gklein@parvos:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/mail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Mar 3 2023 /usr/bin/mail ->
/etc/alternatives/mail
gklein@parvos:~$ ls -l /etc/alternatives/mail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Mar 3 2023 /etc/alternatives/mail ->
/usr/bin/mail.mailutils
My mail is from package mailutils, as described, and it doesn't (by
default) appear to use the full name from /etc/passwd. I had expected
this to 'just work', seeing as "Mailutils is a swiss army knife of
electronic mail handling". I can, of course, switch to a different MTA.
But it's difficult for me to believe this can't be done with this 'Swiss
army knife'.
Kind regards,
Gertjan.
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