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- From: shankar@sgi.com (Shankar Unni)
- Subject: Re: MH aliases
- Message-ID: <5617.727639522@boris.wpd.sgi.com>
- In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 21 Jan 93 01:44:01 EST."
- <9301210644.AA09307@wilma.cs.utk.edu>
- X-Mailer: mh6.7.2
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
- Reply-To: shankar@sgi.com
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Lines: 23
- Date: 21 Jan 93 18:05:43 GMT
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- Keith Moore and Owen Rees pointed out:
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- > > Sendmail will happily generate
- > >
- > > John Q. Public <public@host>, or worse,
- > > John Public (guest) <public@host>.
- > >
- > > This usually causes problems at the receiving end.
- >
- > Agreed, although the latter example is legal RFC 822.
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- Well, ok, yes. Gotcha.
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- But my point still remains - you can put any garbage in the GECOS
- field in the passwd entry, and Sendmail will naively put that string,
- unquoted, in the address entry.
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- Thanks,
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- Shankar Unni E-Mail: shankar@sgi.com
- Silicon Graphics Inc. Phone: +1-415-390-2072
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