Re: sender: field shorter?

On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Alan Thew wrote:

> I am getting used to exim. Would it be possible to optionally set
> this field to
>
> sender: user@site
>
> rather than
>
> sender: gecos_data <user@site> ??
>
> It seems an extra password lookup to find this information which IMHO is
> not needed.

If the machine is fairly busy there's a fair chance the passwd file will be
in a buffer from last time it was used, so the gain in speed from not doing
the lookup would be small; if not the speed probably doesn't bother you.