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I have setup SSMTP on a few servers to all use the same email address to send mail from. Now, obviously, whenever I get a mail from one of these servers, the mails all originate from this same email address. I would like for the servers so send with a different "full name", e.g.:

Reading through the SSMTP manfile, I found the -F option, which should do exactly what I want. However, I can't find a way to set some default value for -F. My Google-fu is failing me. Is there any way to achieve what I want?

[Edit] Hm, so far, I hadn't bothered trying the -F command line flag. I just did and even that is not working for me. I have SSMTP setup to send with a GMail account. Could that be the cause?

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I don't know about SSMTP but most mail agents take their default full name values from the name field in /etc/passwd. You might try changing it for the originating user using passwd -f or manually editing the file to enter names. This is typically the 5th field in the file.

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  • Thanks! I guess you mean chfn -f? As far as I can see passwd doesn't accept an -f option. Doesn't seem to work for SSMTP though.
    – AVH
    Apr 16, 2011 at 12:13
  • Ya, sorry that is a distro difference and I keep forgetting not all passwds are created equal and my passwd command has super ninja powers.
    – Caleb
    Apr 16, 2011 at 12:16
  • What name does SSMTP pick up as the default? Maybe you could search for that name somewhere and figure out where it's coming from that way.
    – Caleb
    Apr 16, 2011 at 12:17
  • It's not picking up any name, mails are send from <[email protected]>, no full name.
    – AVH
    Apr 16, 2011 at 12:20
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It looks like you may be able to setup aliases in the /etc/revaliases file.

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