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

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

On Monday 21 December 2009, Stroller wrote:

> 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".

Some (don't know about gentoo's) versions of the "mail" command have a "-r" 
switch that lets you specify the "from" address.

In any case, if, instead of mail/mailx, you use a sendmail-compatible agent 
like ssmtp, there you'll definitely have a -r option.