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From: steve@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk (Steve Platt)
Newsgroups: mail.uk-sendmail-workers,comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: inverted alias lookup?
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Date: 25 Oct 90 13:54:10 GMT
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Has anyone experience with getting UK-sendmail's multihost configuaration to
turn unix usernames into "official" aliases in outgoing "From:"  lines?

The SUN-supplied sendmail.cf does something with the YP map "mail.byaddr"
which can be used with aliases like :-

 a.n.other: guest@mailserver
 guest:     a.n.other

The YP "make" builds mail.byaddr from this so you can get sendmail
to translate "guest@mailserver" into "a.n.other@domain", whereas I
think uk-sendmail currently produces "guest@domain".

What we want is to have our outgoing From lines free of usernames.

Steve Platt
Tempus Fugitive
MRC Applied Psychology Unit
15 Chaucer Road
Cambridge CB2 2EF