Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ukma!gatech!purdue!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!ukc!etive!glasgow!Andrew.Findlay From: Andrew.Findlay@brunel.ac.uk (Andrew Findlay) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,mail.uk-sendmail-workers Subject: Re: Reply-To Message-ID: <1345.8812011458@Suleika.me.brunel.ac.uk> Date: 1 Dec 88 13:58:18 GMT Sender: daemon@cs.glasgow.ac.uk Lines: 30 In-Reply-To: Message from "Steve Platt" of Dec 1, 88 at 2:35 pm X-Mailer: Elm [version 1.5b-hd] X-Mailer: mail-news 2.0.3 | Another question - is it possible to change the "From:" | field with something in .mailrc or whatever; there has Not sure about 'mail', but 'elm' can be set up to do that (or insert a Reply-To: if you wish) | been some discussion about systems that are so sloppy | they send out usernames in mail addresses recently... Most do.. | Not security-conscious un*x of course, but .... Most do.. | The sort of thing we might want is for mail to come "from" | an official alias for the user (eg S.V.Platt for me); | rather than from the... You want the IDA sendmail enhancement kit. We use that at Brunel. It allows us to map the default 'username@ee.brunel.ac.uk' address into the official 'Full.Name@brunel.ac.uk' version that you see outside. The reverse translation is done for incoming mail, of course! Andrew --------------------------------------------------------------------- | From Andrew Findlay at Brunel University, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH, UK | | Andrew.Findlay@brunel.ac.uk phone: +44 895 74000 x2512 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------