Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 14:28:32 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeremy Shaffner <jer@jorsm.com> To: Bob Boone <bboone@whro.org> Cc: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: long.names with sendmail and BDS 2.2.5 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980624142611.2252F-100000@mercury.jorsm.com> In-Reply-To: <199806241433.HAA13797@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > Bob Boone wrote: > > This is the only FreeBSD list I'm on, so here's an "easy" if not > > politically-correct question for the list. > > > > I'm running 2.2.5, with whatever version of sendmail comes with > > it. A friend doesn't want to use his login as his email, he wants to > > use firstname.lastname@domain.com (with real names in the > > placeholders). Knowing that their is an 8-character limit to the > > checking done for login names, will the longer name structures work ??? > > I intend to alias the longer names to their login names. . . . . Is > > there anything in FREEBSD or Sendmail, or popper for that matter, that > > would screw up the use of longer names, even if there were two = > > Alexander.one@domain.com and Alexander.two@ domain.com ???? > > > > two options come to mind immediately. > > 1. use /etc/aliases. one alias for each long.name > this will take care of incoming mail. outgoing mail > will still have the users login. > > 2. use genericstable and virtusertable in sendmail to > rewrite the mail headers and envelope. this will make > the long.name appear to be the name. no local user login > names will appear. > If, in your example, "domain.com" is a virtual domain, you would not use /etc/aliases, but (for example) /etc/sendmail/maildomains. (Keep in mind the format is different.) -===================================================================- Jeremy Shaffner JORSM Internet Senior Technical Support Northwest Indiana's Premium jer@jorsm.com Internet Service Provider support@jorsm.com http://www.jorsm.com -===================================================================- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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