Change the “From:” address in Unix “mail”

Question

Sending a message from the Unix command line using mail TO_ADDR results in an email from $USER@$HOSTNAME. Is there a way to change the \"From:\" ad

Answer 1

I derived this from all the above answers. Nothing worked for me when I tried each one of them. I did lot of trail and error by combining all the above answers and concluded on this. I am not sure if this works for you but it worked for me on Ununtu 12.04 and RHEL 5.4.

echo "This is the body of the mail" | mail -s 'This is the subject' ',' -- -F '' -f ''

One can send the mail to any number of people by adding any number of receiver id's and the mail is sent by SenderName from from-id@email.com

Hope this helps.