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How can I change displayed name as sender?

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I send email from my server like this:

echo "This is the body of the email" | mail -s "This is the subject line" [email protected]

Noted that I replace [email protected] with a real email address. And it works. Just I need to know, where this nickname comes from?

I use ubuntu 14.04 on the server and I want to know how can I change that name?

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answered 2 Years ago jokaned · Accepted Answer

Don't use mail, there are better command-line MUAs, such as mailx (package bsd-mailx) or mutt.

mailx will do what you want with the -r flag:

echo Test. | mailx -r "Joe Sender <[email protected]>" -s Test [email protected]

You can likewise specify a display name for the recipient, by the way.

The nickname shown in for instance gmail.com comes from the part of the From field that is outside <[email protected]>, so in this example it would be Joe Sender.