home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!esatst!wg!chris
- From: chris@wg.estec.esa.nl (Milquetoast)
- Subject: Fullname expansion problem
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.134758.5261@wg.estec.nl>
- Sender: news@wg.estec.nl
- Nntp-Posting-Host: wgserv
- Reply-To: chris@wg.estec.esa.nl
- Organization: WG/ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 92 13:47:58 GMT
- Lines: 36
-
- We seem to have a problem with our sendmail configuration, in that if a
- message is sent from a user sendmail tries to resolve the fullname by using
- all the full names which contain the username. For example, suppose we have
- passwd entries as follows:
-
- foobar:*:nn:nn:foobar saunders:/users/foobar:/bin/csh
- eric:*:nn:nn:eric afoojones:/users/eric:/bin/ksh
- foo:*:nn:nn:foo smith/users/foo:/bin/ksh
-
- (In our case, of course, all the users have passwords and different uids).
- Mail sent from foo will appear as
-
- From: foo (foobar saunders
-
-
- BAD MSG:
- eric afoojones
- oo smith)
-
- Is there some way to fix this so that it will appear as
- From: foo (foo smith).
-
- [BTW we're running whatever version of sendmail is supplied with SunOS 4.1.1]
-
- Regards,
-
-
- Chris
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Chris Rouch chris@wg.estec.esa.nl
- Serco Space Ltd Tel: +31 1719 84672
- ESTEC, The Netherlands Fax: +31 1719 84192
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- ....... drivin' or what?
-
-
-