Hi,

I have to generate an email report that runs at regular intervals...no problem.
But I want to specify a "From" field.

I execute the command sendmail <recipient address> < mailbody.txt

Now in the file mailbody.txt I have the following:

Subject: Daily Report
From: "the messenger"
To: <group email address>

....and then the body of text.

It sends the report nicely and the subject appears as the email subject BUT it's always from "the messenger"@admin@localdomain.com or something like that. I would just like it to be something exactly as I type in (somewhere) like
From: The Bean Counter, or
From: Mission Control

or something like that.

Thanks for any guidance.

Do some reading on:

You will also have to be a trusted sender to change the from/reply-to stuff.

You can do it all by piping multiple lines into "sendmail -t"

(echo "To: <recipient@example.com>"
echo "From: the messenger"
echo -e "Subject: Test email \n"
echo -e "Line 1 of body in test \n"
echo -e "Line 2 of body in test \n") |sendmail -t

Note that whatever you put in the From: will have the domain of the server appended as @<server.example.com> unless you put in the "@" yourself. (e.g. "the messenger@wherever"). Also If you have spaces in the From: it will replace those with dots so it becomes "the.messenger". You could replace the spaces with underscores. (e.g. "the_messenger")