How set the From email address for mailx command?

Question

I'm working on a korn shell script running on a Solaris server that will send out an email when and error condition is met. I'm sending the email via mailx.

Question: How to I set the "From" email address on the mailx command?

Current Code:

echo ${msg_txt} | mailx -s "Script Failure" ${to_email}

Note: The command works fine, however, the "From" is the name of the user I'm running the script as and I would like for this to another email address.

How would I accomplish this?
Thx in advanced for your answers.

AieshaDot

Answer 1

You can use the "-r" option to set the sender address:

mailx -r [email protected] -s ...