Send email from the command line (Konsole)

[David Hart]

On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 01:47:31PM +1000, Nikolai wrote:
> Marius Gedminas wrote:
> 
> >   $ echo "Here's the file I promised to send you" | mutt -s "Subject" \
> >          -a attachment.zip recipient at example.com
> 
> 
> This is just great. Small problem, however. After sending email this
> way, the From field has username at machine, is there any way to configure
> mutt or postfix to insert my proper email address to the From field?

The easiest way is to add the following to ~/.muttrc

	set from=user at yourdomain.tld
	set use_from=yes

More info at http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.html#from

-- 
David Hart <ubuntu at tonix.org>