On Thu, 23 Oct 2014, David F. Skoll wrote: >On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 10:36:13 -0500 >Ben Kamen <bka...@benjammin.net> wrote: > >> What's the config option so that sendmail accepts mail to a user's >> "Full Name" field? > >There's a really ancient Sendmail configuration directive that makes it >look at the gecos field of /etc/passwd. > >define(`confMATCH_GECOS',`true')dnl > >http://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/other/Docs/oreilly/other2/Sendmail_3rd/1565928393_ch24-34890.html
Don't use that! It is way too fuzzy and error prone. At least it was a long time ago on a Silicon Graphics Irix 5.x system. One of our users had the habit to enter a "q" (for "quit") when he had entered a recipient list in his interactive, text based, mail client. The mail client took this "q" as recipient name and handed it over to sendmail. Sendmail used the GECOS field to resolved this "q" into a user name. The only match for "q" in the GECOS fields happend to be the third initial of one of the other users. So that guy received quite a few unintentional CC's of the first user's outbound mail. I would just put the alternative addresses in the aliases file. Regards, Kees Theunissen. -- Kees Theunissen, System and network manager, Tel: +31 (0)30 6096724 Dutch Institute For Fundamental Energy Research (DIFFER) e-mail address: c.j.theunis...@differ.nl postal address: PO Box 1207, 3430 BE Nieuwegein, NL visitors address: Edisonbaan 14, 3439 MN Nieuwegein, NL _______________________________________________ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list MIMEDefang@lists.roaringpenguin.com http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
