On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Philip Hazel wrote:
> Completely *replacing* the From line, whatever is
> there already, can be done today:
>
> *@local.domain "${lookup{$local_part}lsearch{/etc/passwd}\
> {${if match{$value}{^(?:[^:]*:)\\{3\\}([^:]+)}\
> {$1 }}}}\
> <$local_part@$domain>" fw
Thanks.
> The problem with adding to an already existing from line is in deciding
> when to do it, I suspect. Does snedmail do it for any or all of
I checked these on our old sendmail mail-server:
> From: abcd
Sendmail rewrites this one as:
From: Gecos Entry for Abcd <abcd@LOCALDOMAIN>
> From: <abcd>
> From: <abcd> ()
> From: abcd ()
> From: () abcd
> From: Joe <abcd> Doe
In all these cases, @LOCALDOMAIN will be added to the address, but
no GECOS field will be added.
> If it is wanted only for the first one (or two) then things are
> relatively simple. What happens if user Joe Doe (login = abcd) sends a
> message containing
>
> From: xyz
>
> ? What Exim does in that case is to add a Sender: header, which does
> include the gecos field.
Here, sendmail adds no warning header but does not add the GECOS field
of 'xyz' even if it exists in /etc/passwd -- only the address is qualified
by @LOCALDOMAIN as in the other five cases.
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