Helmut, I'm going to try to answer this one for you, and hopefully someone else on the list will back me up or correct me if I am wrong.
You said that most of your users are using programs like Outlook or Eudora and that you don't have tmda-ofmipd configured. If that is the case, then mail being sent from those clients directly to your SMTP server will bypass TMDA and your outgoing mail will not be filtered through TMDA. That being the case, the from header will be created by the mail client. Once you get past that issue, there are other things to consider. By that I mean that if you can use a client that DOES get filtered through TMDA, then that's only part of the issue. I did some testing with two different clients that both went through TMDA. In my testing these were both Unix clients, but nonetheless I did see a difference. First I used Pine, which in it's default configuration will take the users real name from the password file and prepend that to the front of the e-mail address: Jane Doe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No matter what I changed in my TMDA configuration, that remained the same. Then I used the regular 'mail' command from unix and I was able to get different results. In your TMDA .config file you can create a line like this: FULLNAME = "JANE DOE" This will tell TMDA to prepend it so that the from header will look like it does above. So if there is no name in the password file, you can modify each users .config file to show their name. Likewise, you can also use other variables for USERNAME and DOMAINNAME. I would suggest checking the following link for a full list of the variables that can be used and what their defaults are. However, in the meantime, your first issue is getting the outbound mail to be filtered through TMDA in the first place. http://www.tmda.net/config-vars.html Hope this helped a little, David --- Helmuth Kisting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hiya, > Glad to be able to post to this venerated list :) > > I've recently installed and configured TMDA and so far I'm a happy > camper, > except for one little do-do: > If I send mail to- say one of my webmail accounts- the "From" header > is > displayed as "Jane Doe" followed by my e-mail address. > > Is it possible to change this through TMDA and how can I do it? > > As I understand it, TMDA generates this information from my > password-file > or environment. Trouble is that I have to configure this for an ISP > and > because of past neglect or maybe a legitimate reason, information > such as a > users fullname is not included when he/she signs up. And we got about > > 5000-6000 users. Most of 'em use either Mcrosoft Lookout/Xpress, > Eudora > etc... and I don't feel comfortable yet in configuring something like > > tmda-ofmipd. > > I'm using TMDA 0.84 on top of qmail-1.03, installed on Solaris 5.8 > > Help, please anyone? > > > TIA, > Helmuth Kisting > AfricaOnline Namibia > Systems Admin > > _____________________________________________ > tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com _____________________________________________ tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users
