Personal name in MAIL.

pdb at sie.cmu.edu pdb at sie.cmu.edu
Wed Jul 27 02:54:55 AEST 1988


If you use a reasonably intellegent user agent for mail, you can get
any personal name you want.  I'm using MH, and it has no trouble with
this.

If you're using the stock Ultrix /usr/ucb/Mail, then I'm afraid you're
stuck with whatever you have in the GECOS field of /etc/passwd (which,
as has been pointed out, can be changed with 'chfn').

There's no way to make sendmail vary what it uses for $x unless you
have the source and are willing to hack on it (which I would not
recommend).

--Pat.



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