Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 09:03:12 +1000 From: Tony Landells <ahl@austclear.com.au> To: Pablo Quintana <quintana@netsys.hn> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A dot in the username Message-ID: <200104182303.JAA12359@tungsten.austclear.com.au> In-Reply-To: Message from Pablo Quintana <quintana@netsys.hn> of "Wed, 18 Apr 2001 16:41:46 EST." <5.0.2.1.0.20010418163936.0287e160@netsys.hn>
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If you mean for email, then yes. In the remainder of this email I'm going to assume you're running sendmail (since you haven't indicated otherwise) with the standard FreeBSD 4.2 sendmail.cf. For incoming email, you only need an entry in the aliases file. This file is located in /etc/mail/aliases, and the entry you want is: pablo.quintana: quintana After you make changes to the file you need to rebuild the database. There is stuff in /etc/mail/Makefile to do this but it's commented out, so you can either uncomment it and run 'make' or you can do it by hand with '/usr/bin/newaliases'. Outgoing email is a bit trickier... If you're always going to use Eudora (as you did for the original message) then you should just be able to set it as your return address in Eudora and leave it at that. However if you intend to generate outgoing mail on the FreeBSD box you're going to need to make changes to your sendmail.cf to include support for a genericstable. There is information on that at the sendmail website (www.sendmail.org) as well as in the sendmail source tree (assuming you installed that) in /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf/README and possibly elsewhere. Have fun, Tony -- Tony Landells <ahl@austclear.com.au> Senior Network Engineer Ph: +61 3 9677 9319 Australian Clearing Services Pty Ltd Fax: +61 3 9677 9355 Level 4, Rialto North Tower 525 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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