Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 00:50:41 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Bob Boone <bboone@whro.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: long.names with sendmail and BDS 2.2.5 Message-ID: <3590A1C1.52EDD517@softweyr.com> References: <35906AA1.D09AAC29@whro.org>
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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.
You can send mail to the "questions" list and ask the respondents to
copy you on the replies. Try it, it works quite well.
> 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 ????
No, this all works just fine. Try 'man aliases' for details.
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