Personal name in MAIL.

Fuat C. Baran fuat at cunixc.cc.columbia.edu
Wed Aug 17 23:19:54 AEST 1988


In article <53017 at felix.UUCP> barnett at vdsvax.UUCP (Bruce G. Barnett) writes:
>You could try creating a file ~/.mailcf
>
>This has the same syntax that /usr/lib/sendmail.cf has, and can be
>used to change headers in mail messages.
>
>Sun removed this 'feature' from their OS because it contained
>a security hole.

Actually, I believe the original author of sendmail (Eric Allman)
removed this feature because "it's been abused".  (Done in version
4.30 in 1984.)

						--Fuat


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