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From: starr@mrsvr.UUCP (Larry Starr,Mezzanine,46971,5638828)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Getting Fullname when all mail is forwarded to server
Message-ID: <1879@mrsvr.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jan 90 15:29:33 GMT
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From article <2596@erix.ericsson.se>, by per@erix.ericsson.se (Per Hedeland):
> 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

We use the "R" option on our 4.0.3 systems and it works quite well.

We do, however have a number of 3.5 systems and I have tried, 
several times with no success, to implement what you are 
describing.  I would be very interrested in a solution that
works.

> 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.

That has been my experience, every rewriting scheme that I 
have tried rewrites both sender's and recipient's addresses
and, since the sender's address does not resolve to "local"
after the rewrite the full name never gets added.


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Larry Starr
MR Research Facility
G.E. Medical Systems