Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!occrsh!uokmax!apple!usc!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!news.funet.fi!kannel!Kimmo.Suominen From: Kimmo.Suominen@lut.fi (Kimmo Suominen) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: Sender's name field Message-ID: Date: 11 Sep 90 13:29:03 GMT References: <5092@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi> Sender: kim@lut.fi (Kimmo Suominen) Organization: Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland Lines: 18 In-Reply-To: keijo@vttux1.vtt.fi's message of 10 Sep 90 13:33:24 GMT Disclaimer: These are my opinions unless otherwise stated >>>>> On 10 Sep 90 13:33:24 GMT, keijo@vttux1.vtt.fi (keijo tuominen) said: 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) keijo> So is it possible that i make some kind of database where keijo> sendmail matches names like keijo or something else and moves keijo> them to keijo.tuominen or something firstname.lastname Get IDA pathced Sendmail. It has that feature. When using it, you need to keep a database (mail.generics) of mappings from real sender names to those to be written on the outgoing headers. No envelope rewriting will be done, which I think is a good thing. -- Kim / Internet: Kimmo.Suominen@lut.fi "That's what I think." / Bitnet: KIM@FINFILES