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From: warren@sniff.dec.com (warren sypteras)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Personal name in MAIL.
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Date: 19 Jul 88 14:13:49 GMT
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I'm running ULTRIX-32 V2.2 on a MicroVAX.  I would like to be able to 
include the same feature that the VMS mailer has; PERSONAL_NAME.
 
Looking through the sendmail.cf file I can see how to substitute text
in place of the $x macro which I understand, is supposed to equate to 
the full name of the user.
 
I can't, for the life of me, figure out how to put something (a command
maybe) in place of the $x that would cause sendmail to look for and include
text in a file in the senders account.
 
For example; $x is replaced with somthing that causes sendmail to include
the text in ~warren/.personal_name.
 
Is the above possible to do in the sendmail.cf file?  If not, is something
else possible?  I don't have any sources and reading the available documentation
is, well.......shall I say tortuous! :-)
 
Warren
 
[ You already get your full name as displayed by "finger" and you can change
that with "chfn".  -- Art Z. ]