rob@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US (Rob Bernardo) (04/11/91)
FYI on an old issue: A while back someone pointed out that her full name in the From: header of mail she sent with ELM had her name in a different form than listed in her .elmrc file. It turned out she corrected this by changing the gcos field in her passwd entry. I posted that I thought it was a bug that the .elmrc fullname did not override the gcos field of the passwd entry. It turns out I was sorta wrong. The .elmrc fullname *does* override the gcos field. **But**, if you have elm configured to use sendmail, you will likely have it configured not to add that From: header, in which case sendmail adds it and uses the gcos field as a source of your full name. -- Rob Bernardo Mt. Diablo Software Solutions email: rob@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US phone: (415) 827-4301
andy@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andy Clews) (04/18/91)
In article <1991Apr11.050952.11197@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US>, rob@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US (Rob Bernardo) writes: - A while back someone pointed out that her full name in the From: header - of mail she sent with ELM had her name in a different form than listed - in her .elmrc file. It turned out she corrected this by changing the - gcos field in her passwd entry. - - I posted that I thought it was a bug that the .elmrc fullname did not - override the gcos field of the passwd entry. It turns out I was sorta - wrong. The .elmrc fullname *does* override the gcos field. **But**, if - you have elm configured to use sendmail, you will likely have it - configured not to add that From: header, in which case sendmail adds it - and uses the gcos field as a source of your full name. We had a similar problem, but we find we can get around it by creating a NAME environment variable (in the .cshrc file, or whatever shell startup file you use) and Elm takes the "From:" contents from the value of that variable. We recommend our users to do this because they are not permitted to change the Name in their /etc/passwd gcos field. -- Andy Clews, Computing Service, Univ. of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QN, England JANET: andy@uk.ac.sussex.syma BITNET: andy%syma.sussex.ac.uk@uk.ac