G'day monks,

I'm using MIME::Lite to send an email message on a FreeBSD 5.3 server, and I have specified a value for the "From" key, as illustrated in the method below: 
sub send {
  my $self    = shift;
  my $args    = shift;

  my $email   = $args->{email}   || $self->{EMAIL};;
  my $subject = $args->{subject} || "Subject not specified";
  my $message = $args->{message} || "No message specified";
  my $from    = $args->{from}    || $self->{FROM};

  my $msg = MIME::Lite->new(
    From     => $from,
    To       => $email,
    Subject  => $subject,
    Data     => $message
  );

  $msg->send();
}

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Unfortunately, when I send the message, it fails to override the sender's name, instead sending the mail literally from "Mail Sender".

How can I override the default behavior of the mailer agent so that I can specify a new sender?

This is certainly something that is configured elsewhere in the OS, but I'm just not sure where to find it...

Where do you want *them* to go today?

In reply to Cannot seem to override a "From" address using MIME::Lite by thezip

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