Path: utzoo!dciem!nttor!contact!dmntor!rasmus
From: rasmus@dmntor.on.ca (Rasmus Lerdorf)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: $x macro in sendmail.cf
Message-ID: <1990Jul20.142925.25885@dmntor.on.ca>
Date: 20 Jul 90 14:29:25 GMT
Organization: Digital Media Networks, Toronto, Canada.
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The $x macro should contain the full name of the originating user.  I recently
installed smail2.5 and made some changes.  Now, the $x macro always contains
my name (Rasmus Lerdorf) no matter who is sending the mail.  It seems odd to
me.  The manual says that the $x macro is found by checking the Full Name:
header line if one exists (it doesn't), checking the full name flag passed
to sendmail (I doubt I am always sending it my own name) or by checking
the /etc/passwd file (I know that we don't have 30 users with my name there!)
I checked the sendmail.cf file, and the part that puts the full name in the
From: header line has not changed from before the smail installation.  It
gets the user id right, ie.
	From: mike (Rasmus Lerdorf)

Any suggestions on where to look to remedy this?
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