How to insert name field in mailx

Question

My sample data File is

$ cat /fullpath/myfile.csv
a@gmail.com, A Singh
k@gmail.com, K Singh

I am using script.sh

   #!/bin/bash

while IFS= read -r line
do


email=$(echo $line | awk -F, '{print $1 }')
name=$(echo $line | awk -F, '{print $2 }')


echo | mailx -v -s "Helo $name" -S smtp-use-starttls -S ssl-verify=ignore -S smtp-auth=login -S smtp=smtp://smtp.gmail.com:587 -S from="xxxx@gmail.com(John Smith)" -S smtp-auth-user=xxxx@gmail.com -S  smtp-auth-password=xxxxpassword -S ssl-verify=ignore -S nss-config-dir=~/.certs "$name<$email>" 

done < /fullpath/myfile.csv

what is the correct syntax of adding receiver name

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I am looking for syntax which I am not able to find I tried below

"$name<$email>"
$name<$email>
-S to:"$name<$email>"
-S To:"$name<$email>"
-S To: "$name <$email>"
-S To: $name <$email>

its picking names ( A Singh ) as email and say invalid email. if i use To, it pick TO as email. ie whatever come 1st after certs code pic that as email.

Answer 1

According to the standard documentation , mailx does not seem to support the -S option, but some systems may add this option.

I recommend you use GNU Mailutils .

To specify a "FROM" name and address, you can use the "-a" option.

-a header:value

--append=header:value

 Append the given header to the composed message.

To specify the receiver name and address, just like you did, add name and email to the end of the command will do the work.

#!/bin/bash

while IFS= read -r line
do

email=$(echo $line | awk -F, '{print $1 }')
name=$(echo $line | awk -F, '{print $2 }')

mail -s "Hello $name" -a "From: John Smith<xxxx@gmail.com>" "$name<$email>"
#echo | mailx -v -s "Helo $name" -S smtp-use-starttls -S ssl-verify=ignore -S smtp-auth=login -S smtp=smtp://smtp.gmail.com:587 -S from="xxxx@gmail.com(John Smith)" -S smtp-auth-user=xxxx@gmail.com -S  smtp-auth-password=xxxxpassword## -S ssl-verify=ignore -S nss-config-dir=~/.certs "$name<$email>" 

done < ./myfile.csv