On Sun 1999-07-25 (17:09), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello!
>
> What is the proper environment variable to use for setting
> the personal name in the From: field when sending mail by
> invoking qmail's sendmail replacement?
>
> I'm getting a lite tired of "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" being the only
> thing showing up in the From: field in people's mail clients :)
I use:
export NAME=`perl -e 'print ((split(/,/,(getpwnam($ENV{USER}))[6]))[0]);'`
in my /etc/profile.
It sets the name to the first part of the gecos field.
- Keith
> / Peter Schuller
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Keith Burdis - MSc (Com Sci) - Rhodes University, South Africa
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