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Article #1348Re: MH aliases
From: Shankar Unni
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:05
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:05
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Keith Moore and Owen Rees pointed out: > > Sendmail will happily generate > > > > John Q. Public <public@host>, or worse, > > John Public (guest) <public@host>. > > > > This usually causes problems at the receiving end. > > Agreed, although the latter example is legal RFC 822. Well, ok, yes. Gotcha. But my point still remains - you can put any garbage in the GECOS field in the passwd entry, and Sendmail will naively put that string, unquoted, in the address entry. Thanks, -- Shankar Unni E-Mail: shankar@sgi.com Silicon Graphics Inc. Phone: +1-415-390-2072
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From: shankar@sgi.com (Shankar Unni)
Subject: Re: MH aliases
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