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Started by Michael Pizolato
Wed, 28 Oct 1992 19:36
Aliasing outgoing mail
Author: Michael Pizolato
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 19:36
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 19:36
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I remember some time back someone posting a way to change outgoing "From:" lines in mail from a username to a full name alias - it involved some changes to the sendmail.cf file, I think. For example, normally when our user "roscoe" sends e-mail out to the net somewhere, his "From:" line looks like this: From: roscoe@afs.com All our users have full-name aliases. In roscoe's case, it's Roscoe_Babar, i.e. you can send mail to Roscoe_Babar@afs.com and it winds up in roscoe's mailbox. We want our outgoing mail to have "From:" lines that use the full-name alias instead of the username: From: Roscoe_Babar@afs.com Does anyone still have the posts on how to do that? Or know how even if you don't have the old posts? Please e-mail directly to me. Thanx, Michael -- Michael_Pizolato@afs.com ~18 kyu Q16 NeXTMail appreciated
Re: Aliasing outgoing mail
Author: Jean-Michel Planche
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1992 19:18
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1992 19:18
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In article <1992Oct28.193604.626@afs.com> Michael_Pizolato@afs.com (Michael Pizolato) writes: > From: roscoe@afs.com > All our users have full-name aliases. In roscoe's case, it's Roscoe_Babar, i.e. you can send mail to Roscoe_Babar@afs.com and it winds up in roscoe's mailbox. We want our outgoing mail to have "From:" lines that use the full-name alias instead of the username: > From: Roscoe_Babar@afs.com > Does anyone still have the posts on how to do that? Or know how even if you don't have the old posts? In my opinion, the only way to do this cleanproperly is to use a correct (sorry .. actual) SENDMAIL like IDA. Then, you can alias in and out. (ie: when I write mail, the From field is transform to <MY_LOGIN> in Jean-Michel.Planche .. The second interesting thing is that you can hide your machine name. It's very useful with NeXT network when you use a common /usr/spool/mail. ------------------- Jean-Michel Planche Jean-Michel.Planche@wimsea.oleANe.com Wimsea NeXTMail welcome 24 rue du Champ de l'Alouette Phone : +33 1 45.35.92.92 F-75013 Paris Fax : +33 1 47.07.93.75
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