Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!karl_kleinpaste From: karl_kleinpaste@cis.ohio-state.edu Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: Sender's name field Message-ID: Date: 11 Sep 90 15:49:43 GMT References: Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Organization: Ohio State Computer Science Lines: 28 Kimmo.Suominen@lut.fi writes: keijo> How can i make this line below look like: keijo> From: keijo@vttux1.vtt.fi (keijo tuominen) keijo> This: keijo> From: keijo.tuominen@vttux1.vtt.fi (keijo tuominen) Get IDA pathced Sendmail. It has that feature. In a fit of dementia, last February I devised a scheme of doing fullname hacking based on the $[$] operator in conjunction with an extra pair of domains named "name.$D" and "inv-name.$D". Entries in these domains consist of login names CNAMEd to fullnames, and fullnames having A RRs with addr 0.0.0.0 (just a tag, to give $[$] an excuse to terminate). A couple of rules in the appropriate spots and it provided complete fullname support. The only trick is generating the {,inv-}name domains; I did it by hacking out /etc/passwd's gecos info via some ugly sed and awk work. It worked quite well. An interesting social event occurred, however: After the fullname hack was installed, user community backlash compelled me to de-install it. The hue and cry raised was "loss of information," since the login name was no longer present in a From: line. I considered this a feature, since it tended to make mail less machine-centric, but the users saw differently. Such is life. --karl