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Too bad its not a little easier to get full "From" headers with mailx. Two possibilities:

• Postfix canonical header rewrites to include full name in message headers (not currently available)
• Mailrc would grab the information from the passwd getent

Its possible to manually add a customized from message header with mailx on the command line, but for some reason its not possible to set the message header in .mailrc.

I found a workaround here, which creates a wrapper to /usr/lib/sendmail and sets the full name in the from header like this:

.mailrc:

set sendmail=~/bin/mymailx

~/bin/mymailx:

#!/bin/sh
(echo "From: Full Name <full.name@example.com>"; cat ) | /usr/lib/sendmail $@