[SOLVED] Change Sender name using mail in Centos 6

trickynapzter · 03-28-2014, 01:19 AM

Hi All,

My problem is regarding how to change the senders name when sending an email after series of command in script. This is how i send email:

Code:

echo -e "$MSG" | mail -s " - [awesomedomain.com]: Failed call on [$CHANNEL] -" "$EMAIL"

When i received that email it come from a name Asterisk VoIP PBX, i wanted it to be customized like "Company PBX". Is there any chance to change the senders name using the mail command in CentOS 6?

bathory · 03-28-2014, 03:10 AM

Hi,

You can either set the from variable to the sender address you want:

Code:

export from=sender@domain.com
echo -e "$MSG" | mail -s " - [awesomedomain.com]: Failed call on [$CHANNEL] -" "$EMAIL"

or use the -r switch (might not work in some mail versions)

Code:

echo -e "$MSG" | mail -s " - [awesomedomain.com]: Failed call on [$CHANNEL] -" -r sender@domain.com "$EMAIL"

Regards

trickynapzter · 03-30-2014, 02:12 AM

hi thank you for your reply, -r works for me

but how do you change the senders name? the code will only add the senders email address.

Code:

echo -e "$MSG" | mail -s " - [awesomedomain.com]: Failed call on [$CHANNEL] -" -r sender@domain.com "$EMAIL

I want to modify the senders name for example, it would appear in your inbox as "Company PBX" and yes it's still coming from sender@domain.com.

bathory · 03-30-2014, 08:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by trickynapzter

hi thank you for your reply, -r works for me

but how do you change the senders name? the code will only add the senders email address.

Code:

echo -e "$MSG" | mail -s " - [awesomedomain.com]: Failed call on [$CHANNEL] -" -r sender@domain.com "$EMAIL

I want to modify the senders name for example, it would appear in your inbox as "Company PBX" and yes it's still coming from sender@domain.com.

So you can use the following syntax:

Code:

echo -e "$MSG" | mail -s " - [awesomedomain.com]: Failed call on [$CHANNEL] -" -r "sender@domain.com (Company PBX)" "$EMAIL

Regards

trickynapzter · 03-30-2014, 09:00 AM

you are genius

it works like a charm... thank you so much bathory.. problem solved