On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Dec 1999 17:14:23 GMT, you wrote:
> >|Sender: "Marc Haber,,," <mh@???>
>
> BTW, I am told that an MTA should strip off everything after the first
> "," when building any address fields out of /etc/passwd information. I
> have no idea if this is correct though.
Who says? Where is this standard?
*Some* operating systems have conventions as to how this field is used.
Others do not. I imagine some sysadmins have ideas too. I wouldn't be
surprised to see some values like "Hazel, Philip".
For this reason, Exim allows you to configure how it does this. See
gecos_pattern.
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
