My root user send emails with ssmtp. However I can't change "From: root ..." root name. Is there any way to send email with another name without using another user?
Tried:
echo 'From: "New name" ' | ssmtp to@gmail.com -v
My root user send emails with ssmtp. However I can't change "From: root ..." root name. Is there any way to send email with another name without using another user?
Tried:
echo 'From: "New name" ' | ssmtp to@gmail.com -v
You can set up a reverse alias in /etc/ssmtp/revaliases
root:someone@yourdomain.tld
it's hidden at the bottom of the man page.
Add the following in Your /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf file and You will capable to set any name and email during runtime :
FromLineOverride=YES
I suggest you switch from ssmtp to msmtp since ssmtp is not actively developed any more. msmtp provides all the same features as ssmtp plus more. In particular, with msmtp you can set the from setting to control who the mail appears to be sent from.
Try option -Ffull_name, ex:
ssmtp login@mail.com -F"Look at me"
i'll change full name.
there is also -f for changing sender email, ex:
ssmtp -f"helper@world" -F"SuperHero" save@our.world
Change the 'From' text by editing /etc/passwd
to receive mail from 'YOUR NAME HERE' instead of just 'root'.
chfn -f 'YOUR NAME HERE' root
Check it using grep root /etc/passwd
root:x:0:0:YOUR NAME HERE,,,:/root:/bin/bash
Found it here and it worked a treat!
Looks like FromLineOverride=YES doesn't work anymore.
I guess GMAIL is not allowing this now. But I am not sure.
I'm also using ssmtp and, even though I tried the other solutions, none of them worked for me.
However, it worked for me with GMail by defining the "From" field as:
...
From: Your Name Here <your_email_here@gmail.com>
...
I hope this helps!
The -F
option works if you are specifying the email params on the ssmtp command line, e.g.
echo "Test email" | ssmtp -F"New name" -v to@gmail.com
If you want all emails sent from root@ to come from a certain name, you can change the Linux user information as described in this StackOverflow answer:
chfn -f "New name" root
"What this does is setting/changing the real name for that user in the finger information (stored in the /etc/passwd file--see the chfn man page)."
Update Even after updating the finger information, cron is still sending email from "root", not using my "New name". Some versions of cron support a MAILFROM=
line, but not mine (see this article).