On Thu 19 Oct 2023 at 13:30:53 (+0200), Gertjan Klein wrote: > Op 18-10-2023 om 18:30 schreef David Wright: > > On Tue 17 Oct 2023 at 19:41:43 (+0200), Gertjan Klein wrote: > > > gklein@parvos:~$ cat /etc/passwd | grep gklein > > > gklein:x:1000:1000:Gertjan Klein,,,:/home/gklein:/bin/bash > > > > On my (bullseye) system, that field is what is used to get my full > > name. > > It's what I'd expect to be used, unless configured otherwise.
Yes, in emails that you and I send. (Both our tests were carried out from our bash prompts.) > > (Note that I don't personally send mail this way—I use mutt, of course.) And I should add that my From: address is a function of several factors, like who I'm replying to, which mailbox I'm reading, and so on. > I don't intend to send mail from this machine myself, I want mail from > the system (e.g. unattended-upgrades) delivered to my personal > mailbox. I wouldn't expect /then/ to see my name, or likely anything at all from /etc/passwd. Rather, I would expect system programs to set their own From: address, either read from configuration file or hard-wired into the program itself, as in for example (bullseye): $ strings /usr/sbin/cron | grep -A17 'Cron Daemon' $ strings /usr/sbin/anacron | grep -B5 -A4 'Anacron <' which displays the origin of their From: lines as I receive them. It would be interesting to know whether the correct addresses were being generated by /system/ emails when you were still using mailutils; and whether they are, now that you're using bsd-mailx. I've never used unattended upgrades. I have unattended updates and downloads, but they're my own creations, initiated by root's crontab, so those emails come from Cron Daemon. Cheers, David.
