From: Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Changing subject and from lines of cron emails
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:41:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200912212241.13255.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D860741D-827D-4933-9E93-C7A0C8A7E66D@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
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@host.long.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.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-21 22:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-21 11:35 [gentoo-user] Changing subject and from lines of cron emails Stroller
2009-12-21 16:19 ` [gentoo-user] " reader
2009-12-21 22:23 ` walt
2009-12-22 11:07 ` [gentoo-user] Re: get_iplayer rocks! Stroller
2009-12-21 22:41 ` Etaoin Shrdlu [this message]
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