mailx change sender name

Question

I understood that for changing sender's name with mailx I should do the following:

mailx -r newmail@mail.com -s "some subject" my@email.com

But when I do that, I get:

mailx: invalid option -- r
Usage: mail [-iInv] [-s subject] [-c cc-addr] [-b bcc-addr] to-addr ...
            [-- sendmail-options ...]
       mail [-iInNv] -f [name]
       mail [-iInNv] [-u user

Does anyone knows what's happening? thanks,

Change the sender's email. I think it works (`-r`) with newer version of mailx — hudac, May 29 '13 at 20:35

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 14 '15 at 15:00

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mailx -a 'From:name@your-domain.com' -s "Subject" my-best-friend@other-domain.com < text.txt

answered Oct 14 '15 at 15:00

Timo

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 28 '13 at 07:50

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The correct syntax is:

mailx -s "some subject" my@email.com -- -r newmail@mail.com

The Usage info shows "[-- sendmail-options ...]" and since "-r" is a sendmail option, you need to use the double dashes first.

answered Dec 28 '13 at 07:50

Nova

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 03 '16 at 23:18

Tested with this and found to be working:

echo test | mailx -s "Mail Test" user@recipentdomain.com -- -f user@senderdomain.com

The double-dash before "-f" makes the mailx not to parse the -f, but only pass it to sendmail/postfix, which will then send with the "from" address mentioned.

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 22 '21 at 08:58

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You could try to use -a to add sender name in header:

mailx -a "From:Sender Name <newmail@mail.com>" -s "some subject" my@email.com

answered Oct 22 '21 at 08:58

Nick Tsai

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