How to set the From email address for mailx command?

shell email solaris ksh mailx
AieshaDot picture AieshaDot · Aug 19, 2009 · Viewed 136.7k times · Source

I am working on a KornShell (ksh) script running on a Solaris server that will send out an email when and error condition is met. I am sending the email via mailx.

Question: How do I set the "From" email address on the mailx command?

Current Code:

echo ${msg_txt} | mailx -s "Script Failure" ${to_email}

Note: The command works fine, however, the "From" is the name of the user I am running the script as and I would like for this to another email address.

How would I accomplish this?

Answer

sth picture sth · Aug 19, 2009

You can use the "-r" option to set the sender address:

mailx -r [email protected] -s ...

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