Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 07:33:56 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: bboone@whro.org (Bob Boone) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: long.names with sendmail and BDS 2.2.5 Message-ID: <199806241433.HAA13797@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <35906AA1.D09AAC29@whro.org> from Bob Boone at "Jun 23, 98 10:55:29 pm"
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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. jmb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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