On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 04:52:21AM -0800, Javilk wrote:
> It does not support the use of the word "webmaster" as an
> e-mail address, because it is over eight characters long. RedHat Linux
> does not restrict this, or didn't as of 5.0. Nor do most of the Unix
> systems that I have used.
Most Unix systems (still) have an eight-character login name limitation.
It's gradually going away, though, as that particular hardwired limit
gets changed to a #define.
> SuSE's support page,
> http://www.suse.de/Support/sdb_e/ke_loginname.html explicitly states one
> must accept this limitation, and alias the name from the /etc/alias file
> for incoming mail. This does nothing for mailing lists where one has to
> use the subscribed e-mail address!
Ummm, it works fine for me. I do it all the time: I just arrange
for outgoing mail to have the "From" field be rewritten by sendmail.
That's really pretty easy now -- in fact, it's even covered in
the sendmail FAQ 'cause so many people use that particular feature.
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
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