[gentoo-user] OT - format ssmtp's from field + gmail SMTP

[gentoo-user] OT - format ssmtp's from field + gmail SMTP

[Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov]

I am using gmail's SMTP server to send mail from my local machine
(mostly for portage and cron logs) and I discovered that if I send
mail using the `mail` command, rather than using my real name,
something just puts my email in the From field. To make it clear it
looks like this:

gmail's interface:
From: ploujj@gmail.com <ploujj@gmail.com>

actual mail text:
From: ploujj@gmail.com

What I would like it to show is:
gmail's interface:
From: Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov <ploujj@gmail.com>

actual mail text:
From: "Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov" <ploujj@gmail.com>

I noticed thatmy cron daemon is able to do this:
From: Cron Daemon <ploujj@gmail.com>

So far, I failed to find out what allowed cron to do this.

my ssmtp config:

# grep -v "#" /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf| cat -s
root=ploujj@gmail.com
mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:587
UseTLS=YES
UseSTARTTLS=Yes
AuthUser=ploujj
AuthPass=******
FromLineOverride=YES

I hope this isn't too OT. Please let me know if there is a better
place to ask this.


Thanks.

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[gentoo-user] Re: OT - format ssmtp's from field + gmail SMTP

[Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov]

I briefly looked at some vixie-cron code and it looks like it's piping
the whole mail text to some process. The interesting thing is that it
pipes:

fprintf(mail, "From: root (Cron Daemon)\n"); [1]

I guess I need to format my mail and pipe it somewhere. Not sure where
though - man mail doesn't talk about piping.

[1] ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/cron/cron_4.1.shar

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