Mail command question

Hi,
i often use the mail command to send email from terminal.
Is it possible to change the default "From: " header?
If i use the mail command from root mails apper to come from System Administrator (root@localhost); i'd like to use a different name.
I know that when in interactive mode i can simply wrote to mail prompt the header i want (From: whatiwant@whatilike) in this case... but i need to do this via script (not interactive) executed by cron
Is it possible to do this?
I actually use this command:
cat /var/log/secure.log | mail -s "Report on `date '+%m/%d/%y% - %H:%M:%S'`" mymailaddress@hostname
Thanks in advance

If you look into the man page of mail command, you will see that it accepts sendmail-options. Then man page of sendmail command shows that "-r sender" is the option to set the "envelope sender address".
Did you try "mail -r sender" but it didn't satisfy you?
I guess it also sets the "From:" header, but if you want set the "From:" alone, then you may try:
<pre>
echo "Subject: Report on `date '+%m/%d/%y - %H:%M:%S'`
From: whatyoulike@whatyoulike
" |
cat - /var/log/secure.log |
/usr/sbin/sendmail -i yourmailaddress@hostname</pre>
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