Re: MH aliases

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From: Christopher Davis
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:38

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SU> == Shankar Unni <shankar@sgi.com>

 SU> But my point still remains - you can put any garbage in the GECOS
 SU> field in the passwd entry, and Sendmail will naively put that string,
 SU> unquoted, in the address entry.

Depends on the sendmail.  IDA sendmail appears to DTRT; at least one of the
users here has "First M. Last" in his gecos field, and it properly quotes
his name when generating From: lines.
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From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
Subject: Re: MH aliases
In-Reply-To: shankar@sgi.com's message of 21 Jan 93 18:05:43 GMT
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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:38:39 GMT
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