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From: per@erix.ericsson.se (Per Hedeland)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Getting Fullname when all mail is forwarded to server
Message-ID: <2596@erix.ericsson.se>
Date: 15 Jan 90 18:59:25 GMT
Reply-To: per@erix.ericsson.se (Per Hedeland)
Organization: Ellemtel Utvecklings AB, Stockholm, Sweden
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Environment: Sun's sendmail on SunOS 4.0.3, although I believe this is a
generic sendmail question.

We have sendmail.cf set up so that all mail sent from (or to) a number of
clients gets forwarded with SMTP to a mail server (for various reasons we do
*not* want to use Sun's R option for this). The problem is that when mail is
sent from one of the clients, sendmail does not pick up and include the full
name from the gecos field of the senders passwd entry, neither on client nor
on server (which has passwd entries for all senders).

I can (sort of) understand why this happens, i.e. sendmail doesn't classify the
sender address as "local" in either case (but for different reasons?), but was
wondering if someone maybe had some suggestions on how to handle this - I'd
think that a lot of people would have run into it before... 

Thanks in advance
--Per Hedeland
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