Using e-mail

Adding your real name to the message header

When you read a message, the ``From'' field in the header information includes the sender's login (usually an abbreviation of the sender's real name).

To add your real name or other information to the ``From'' field, you need to change the environment variable NAME. For example, your login is perry and you want to add the information that you are a project leader. Before sending out a memorandum, you could do the following if you use the Bourne or Korn shell:

   $ NAME="XTR project team leader"
   $ export NAME
   $ mail

In the C shell, you would enter the following:

   $ setenv NAME "XTR project team leader"
   $ mail

Mail received from you will now contain the line:

   From: perry (XTR project team leader)

For details on how to set environment variables, see ``Setting environment variables''.