keijo@vttux1.vtt.fi (keijo tuominen) (09/10/90)
How can i make this line below look like: From: keijo@vttux1.vtt.fi (keijo tuominen) This: From: keijo.tuominen@vttux1.vtt.fi (keijo tuominen) So is it possible that i make some kind of database where sendmail matches names like keijo or something else and moves them to keijo.tuominen or something firstname.lastname -- * Tuominen Keijo E-mail adresses: * * Klaneettitie 18 d 56 00420 HKI keijo.tuominen@.vtt.fi (Office)* * Phone (Home): 90-538606 TELEFAX: * * Phone (Office): 456-4295 VTT +358 0 460648 *
Kimmo.Suominen@lut.fi (Kimmo Suominen) (09/11/90)
>>>>> On 10 Sep 90 13:33:24 GMT, keijo@vttux1.vtt.fi (keijo tuominen) said:
keijo> How can i make this line below look like:
keijo> From: keijo@vttux1.vtt.fi (keijo tuominen)
keijo> This:
keijo> From: keijo.tuominen@vttux1.vtt.fi (keijo tuominen)
keijo> So is it possible that i make some kind of database where
keijo> sendmail matches names like keijo or something else and moves
keijo> them to keijo.tuominen or something firstname.lastname
Get IDA pathced Sendmail. It has that feature. When using it, you
need to keep a database (mail.generics) of mappings from real sender
names to those to be written on the outgoing headers.
No envelope rewriting will be done, which I think is a good thing.
--
Kim / Internet: Kimmo.Suominen@lut.fi
"That's what I think." / Bitnet: KIM@FINFILES
karl_kleinpaste@cis.ohio-state.edu (09/11/90)
Kimmo.Suominen@lut.fi writes:
keijo> How can i make this line below look like:
keijo> From: keijo@vttux1.vtt.fi (keijo tuominen)
keijo> This:
keijo> From: keijo.tuominen@vttux1.vtt.fi (keijo tuominen)
Get IDA pathced Sendmail. It has that feature.
In a fit of dementia, last February I devised a scheme of doing
fullname hacking based on the $[$] operator in conjunction with an
extra pair of domains named "name.$D" and "inv-name.$D". Entries in
these domains consist of login names CNAMEd to fullnames, and
fullnames having A RRs with addr 0.0.0.0 (just a tag, to give $[$] an
excuse to terminate). A couple of rules in the appropriate spots and
it provided complete fullname support. The only trick is generating
the {,inv-}name domains; I did it by hacking out /etc/passwd's gecos
info via some ugly sed and awk work. It worked quite well.
An interesting social event occurred, however: After the fullname
hack was installed, user community backlash compelled me to de-install
it. The hue and cry raised was "loss of information," since the login
name was no longer present in a From: line. I considered this a
feature, since it tended to make mail less machine-centric, but the
users saw differently.
Such is life.
--karl