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I am trying to send an email from my cron script using ssmtp, the email is working fine but the "From" value is always showing Ubuntu <ubuntu@example.com> which I don't want to use because I need to use something like From="Cron Report <no-reply@example.com>",

ssmtp.conf

#
# Config file for sSMTP sendmail
#
# The person who gets all mail for userids < 1000
# Make this empty to disable rewriting.
root=postmaster

# The place where the mail goes. The actual machine name is required no 
# MX records are consulted. Commonly mailhosts are named mail.domain.com
mailhub=####################

# Where will the mail seem to come from?
#rewriteDomain=

# The full hostname
hostname=example.com
AuthUser=####################
AuthPass==####################
FromLineOverride=NO
UseSTARTTLS=YES
#From="Cron Report <no-reply@example.com>"


# Are users allowed to set their own From: address?
# YES - Allow the user to specify their own From: address
# NO - Use the system generated From: address
#FromLineOverride=YES

revaliases

root:no-reply@example.com
A l w a y s S u n n y
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Not sure how to change the settings in the config, but the below worked for me.

1). Uncomment ssmtp.conf:

FromLineOverride=YES

and in the crontab itself, specify 'from' address (not the below will send an email every 5 minutes ;):

MAILTO=<my-address@example.com>
MAILFROM=<cron-sender@example.com>
*/5 * * * * echo 'Test email from crontab. Skynet takes over the world!'
Kuba T
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