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marlam / msmtp

SMTP client with sendmail compatible interface
https://marlam.de/msmtp
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full-name in From: header #136

Closed atesin closed 1 year ago

atesin commented 1 year ago

hi... this is more like a question or suggestion (is there a forum or community section here in girhub repo?)

in msmtp... how can i add a From; header with full name like From: "J. Random Bot" <jrbot@automail.pub>?

... with "from" command?, with "set_from_header"?.... if possible, could you also add this feature in documentation please?

-- situation: imagine somebody bought a single smtp account somewhere, and uses this same account with msmtp and many profiles, to send messages for different things like: his forum, his contact form, his home alarm system, etc....

until same address in from header and envelope, a good way to distinguish source and sort messages could be the From: header with full name, like

From: "J. Random Forum Notifications" <jrbot@automail.pub>
From: "J. Random Contact Form Message" <jrbot@automail.pub>
From: "J. Random Home Alarm System" <jrbot@automail.pub>
From: "J. Random Joke of the day" <jrbot@automail.pub>
...
marlam commented 1 year ago

You can use from_full_name YOUR_NAME to set the full name in the From header that msmtp creates.

Note that msmtp only creates the From header if the mail does not have one yet or you use set_from_header on.

traeu commented 7 months ago

Is the option "from_full_name" new? I am using version 1.8.16 on ubuntu 22.04 LTS and I get the error "/etc/msmtprc: Zeile 17: Unbekannter Befehl from_full_name". Is there any other way to configure the default full-name in MSMTP's config file?

atesin commented 7 months ago

Is the option "from_full_name" new? I am using version 1.8.16 on ubuntu 22.04 LTS and I get the error "/etc/msmtprc: Zeile 17: Unbekannter Befehl from_full_name". Is there any other way to configure the default full-name in MSMTP's config file?

yes is fairly new, i haven't in my system either (openwrt)... it comes from Apr 22, 2023 on commit https://github.com/marlam/msmtp/commit/67e854aff0f789405f8eb9345ba4fe98979680fb , and tag version 1.8.24

Added a command from_full_name that does what -F does on the command line.

but if you haven't maybe you could use grep/cat/etc to "inject" a from_full_name smtp header, or write a wrapper, until is hard and annoying tough