Exim Sender Name

Question

I have ubuntu 12.04 and exim 4.76

I sent email via CLI from root:

echo "text" | sendmail 698423@gmail.com

and have email with headers (from address)

root <root@my-site-address.com>

Please, tell me how replace root to myname:

mynaname <myname@my-site-address.com>

`man sendmail` should help. That is why the manuals exist. – devnull May 30 '13 at 09:36 — devnull, May 30 '13 at 09:36

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 30 '13 at 10:19

You have logged in with root user so your mail sent from root user. If you want to send from any other user you can switch user as below:

su - username

ex

su - myname

replace username with the user from which you want to send mail and send mail with same command.

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