Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cos!hadron!decuac!felix!info-ultrix From: fuat@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Fuat C. Baran) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: Personal name in MAIL. Message-ID: <54083@felix.UUCP> Date: 17 Aug 88 13:19:54 GMT References: <48906@felix.UUCP> <53017@felix.UUCP> Sender: info-ultrix@felix.UUCP Reply-To: fuat@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Fuat C. Baran) Organization: Columbia University Center for Computing Activities Lines: 22 Approved: zemon@felix.UUCP Reply-Path: In article <53017@felix.UUCP> barnett@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 -- ARPANET: fuat@columbia.edu U.S. MAIL: Columbia University BITNET: fuat@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu Center for Computing Activities USENET: ...!rutgers!columbia!cunixc!fuat 712 Watson Labs, 612 W115th St. PHONE: (212) 280-5128 New York, NY 10025