From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jun 23 23:51:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA17703 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 23:51:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from softweyr.com ([204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA17632; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 23:50:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA11269; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 00:50:41 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <3590A1C1.52EDD517@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 00:50:41 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bob Boone CC: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: long.names with sendmail and BDS 2.2.5 References: <35906AA1.D09AAC29@whro.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message