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Article #3638Re: Email alias different from username
From: Robert J. Clark
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 00:00
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 00:00
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"Pieter J. D. Huiberts" wrote: > > Hello, > I have a question. I am running sendmail 8.93 on RH6.1. > I have usernames like 'lastname' or so, I like in to sendmail to appear > as you have the email firstname.lastname@domain.com > > I think this is convinient to my users as they will logon to the system > by FTP etc. and typeing in firstname.lastname as username is a little > long (cumbersome). > > I was wondering is this possible? > > Thanks for your help! /etc/mail/aliases # Aliases in this file will NOT be expanded in the header from # Mail, but WILL be visible over networks or from /bin/mail. # # >>>>>>>>>> The program "newaliases" must be run after # >> NOTE >> this file is updated for any changes to # >>>>>>>>>> show through to sendmail. # firstname.lastname: lastname
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