[gentoo-user] Changing subject and from lines of cron emails

[Stroller]

'Sup Gentoo?

I'm working on a daily cron job to email me daily. It happens to be  
details of new shows available for download on the BBC's iPlayer  
website. OMG! get_iplayer rocks!

If I have the following in my crontab:

0 8 * * *	/usr/local/bin/get_iplayer -z "Daily Summary" 2>&1 | grep -v  
^Added

Then the email's subject is ugly.

A bit of Googling [1] shows me that:

0 8 * * *	/usr/local/bin/get_iplayer -z "Daily Summary" 2>&1 | grep -v  
^Added | mailx -s "iPlayer Daily Summary" stroller

which gives a neater subject line.

However the "from: " address is stroller@×××××××××.domain, which I  
feel is a little untidy.

It's probably OCD of me to care, but I would prefer the mails to  
appear in my mail client as from "iPlayer".

Can anyone suggest a better solution than writing a wrapper script as  
described at:
    http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@×××××××.org/msg223401.html
please?

This is a great answer, but it means I have extra wrapper scripts  
cluttering up my system, and since I will probably want multiple  
summaries (say weekly reports of "drama" and "comedy" categories,  
delivered on different days) it would mean I need either multiple  
wrapper scripts, or a single much more complicated one.

I am probably making my life complicated just for the pernicketyness  
of it, but any suggestions gratefully received.

Stroller.



[1] http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447626+1261393668323+28353475&threadId=886847