Cheers,
Yosi

The mutt way to set the from address and name in mutt is ;

mutt -e "unmy_hdr from; my_hdr From: rmcdonald@supersize.com.au\"
-e "set realname=\"Ronald McDonald\" " \
-s "this is the subject line ... " \
-a attachmentfile.txt -a anotherFile.doc\
-- ttttoooo@toAddress.co.uk < bodyOfEmail.txt

Note that the -e “command” lets you do any set, unsets, or mutt configurations

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For the record, the other approaches to customising From addresses (and by extention other attributes) are as follows.

I have listed all the methods that mutt make available, though two of them don’t work.

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Method 3 works, #2 half works, method #1 and 4 don’t work.


#from method #1
set use_envelope_from=yes
set envelope_from_address="muttrc@yourApparentDomain.co.uk"
# NOTE : use_from defaults to yes, so that mutt forces the from address
# ***THIS IS THE CAUSE OF PEOPLE GETTING myaccountname AS THEIR
# *** FROM ADDRESS

# from method #4 : let the MTA set the from address
# doesn't work. Mutt fails to remove the from header line.
unmy_hdr from
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export EMAIL=”My Name <email@protected>”

eg. it is “My Name (less-than-sign)email@protected(greater-than-sign)”

export EMAIL=”My Name “

shell_exec(”export EMAIL=\”from@email.com\”; export REPLYTO=\”from@email.com\”; echo ‘email text’ | mutt -n -e ’set envelope_from_address=\”from@email.com\”‘ -e ’set realname=\”My Company Name\”‘ -s ‘email subject’ -a ‘/attachment/file.pdf’ to@email.com“);

Use this command format to set the from name and the from email to whatever you want:
export EMAIL=’from name<from email address>’; echo ‘email body text‘ | mutt -a ‘attachment file‘ -s ‘subject‘ recipient address

Hope I helped! Greetings

I need a favor, I am using mutt command to send an email and everything is working fine, but as you know when email arrived to the proper person, the email is coming from internal name of the instance of the server (e.g From: XX@servername.companyname.extension), can we put an constanct alias for ‘from email account’, I mean from: payables@companyname.net for example. I think this is an internal linux parameters structure?

Thanks
Maroun

shell_exec(“export EMAIL=\”from@email.com\”; echo ‘email text’ | mutt -s ‘email subject’ -a ‘/attachment/file.pdf’ to@email.com“);

When I ran this php program, the recepient receives email like this:
From: “My Real Name”

But I want “My Company Name” to show in the From: line. Where to specify this when running mutt ?

# mail -s “subject of the mail” me@me.com < textfile.txt

This e-mail (mutt) utility looks very useful, I would like to use it on AIX, can any one let me know how I could install this utility on AIX and use it.

Thank you

Regards
Murali

when i am sending a mail with pdf attachment thru mailx utility on MS Outlook than it wooks fine but whenver i am sending the same to rediff/gamil/yahoo than instead of pdf attachment it is sending junk characters,please advice.
uuencode xx_file.pdf xx_file.pdf| mailx –s “Subject of mail” “mail_id”
i am using the above command.

please suggets to do the same.

ram

between attachments and recipients need to putt double dash and files for attachment with out anything

with out double dash wroute:
"Can't stat email@gmail.com: No such file or directory
email@gmail.com: unable to attach file."

because it's thinking that email@gmail.com it's one more attachemt file )))

Hope it's help you )))