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- From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
- Subject: Re: Login Name Administration & Conventions
- In-Reply-To: gs26@prism.gatech.EDU's message of 7 Jan 93 21:54:00 GMT
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- References: <1993Jan5.211556.5284@pb.com> <10925@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> <79372@hydra.gatech.EDU>
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- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 22:05:33 GMT
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- GRS> == Glenn R. Stone <gs26@prism.gatech.EDU>
-
- GRS> That's what Tech is currently implementing.... aliases look like
- GRS> first.last@dept.gatech.edu, which is simply an entry in /etc/aliases
- GRS> on whatever machine "dept.gatech.edu" points at (this can be an MX or
- GRS> a real machine) that resolves things to where they really want to be.
-
- GRS> This isn't perfect; there's no real good way to rewrite the outgoing
- GRS> addresses (YP? NOT!) even if you wanted to.... especially since this
- GRS> hasta work with POP on both Macs and PC's as well as Unix boxen....
-
- You might try IDA sendmail; as long as the Macs and PCs send their mail
- through the sendmail on their POP server, that one can be configured (with
- xaliases) to rewrite, say, 'gs26@prism.gatech.edu' into
- 'Glenn.Stone@foo.gatech.edu' as it goes by.
-
- Or the POP clients (at least Eudora) can just be configured to send out
- addresses of the form 'First.Last@dept.gatech.edu' in the first place.
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