[SOLVED] How to change Email from Name when used by 'mutt'?

astroboiii · 03-24-2010, 09:47 AM

Hi everyone,

I am currently using a shell script to run a java app which performs some integration logic. The shell then continues to compile a file with all stats resulting from the java app. I then send this compiled stats file to several emails. The email is from 'root'. Is there anyway to change this without having to create a new user and running this app as them instead.

let me know what information I can provide to help.

Thanks,

astro

bathory · 03-24-2010, 10:10 AM

Hi,

You can create a .muttrc in root's homedir, containing:

Code:

set from="someuser@domain.com"

Regards

astroboiii · 03-24-2010, 10:24 AM

First off, bathory thank you for responding to my post.

your suggestion seemed to set the from email to whatever I set in the .muttrc file but the name which shows up in the email clients is still ROOT. I really want that to change and I'm not sure where I would do that. I'll take a look at what possible settings I can manipulate within the .muttrc config file.

penguiniator · 03-24-2010, 12:23 PM

set realname = 'Your Name'

astroboiii · 03-24-2010, 12:32 PM

Thank's Penguiniator that did the trick!

penguiniator · 03-24-2010, 12:38 PM

No problem

mapg1964 · 05-09-2013, 11:01 AM

the previous oistings resolved tchanging the name but what I need is to change the email from address when using mutt, I know I can use exportEMAL= user@domain and then i can use mutt but the from address comes mixed my regular network addres and the address I sed in the export,
any way to resolve that?