How can you override the default 'Sender Name' used by mailx or mail in RHEL5?

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Issue

If you use a command like:

cat mymail |mail -s "my test mail" user@redhat.com

A mail will be generated that will use the comments field from /etc/passwd as the user's full name, this may not always be appropriate.

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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