[Mimedefang] Slightly OT: Sendmail config option for accepting user.n...@domain.com

2014-10-23 Thread Ben Kamen
I don't remember unconfiguring this -- but my system currently doesn't accept mail at the full name user field like it used to. I wonder if over time I managed to turn it off. What's the config option so that sendmail accepts mail to a user's Full Name field? (like mine is Ben Kamen -- so

Re: [Mimedefang] Slightly OT: Sendmail config option for accepting user.n...@domain.com

2014-10-23 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 10/23/2014 11:36 AM, Ben Kamen wrote: I don't remember unconfiguring this -- but my system currently doesn't accept mail at the full name user field like it used to. I wonder if over time I managed to turn it off. What's the config option so that sendmail accepts mail to a user's Full

Re: [Mimedefang] Slightly OT: Sendmail config option for accepting user.n...@domain.com

2014-10-23 Thread David F. Skoll
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 10:36:13 -0500 Ben Kamen bka...@benjammin.net wrote: What's the config option so that sendmail accepts mail to a user's Full Name field? There's a really ancient Sendmail configuration directive that makes it look at the gecos field of /etc/passwd.

Re: [Mimedefang] Slightly OT: Sendmail config option for accepting user.n...@domain.com

2014-10-23 Thread Ben Kamen
On 2014-10-23 11:29 AM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: On 10/23/2014 11:36 AM, Ben Kamen wrote: I don't remember unconfiguring this -- but my system currently doesn't accept mail at the full name user field like it used to. I wonder if over time I managed to turn it off. What's the config option so

Re: [Mimedefang] Slightly OT: Sendmail config option for accepting user.n...@domain.com

2014-10-23 Thread Kees Theunissen
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014, David F. Skoll wrote: On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 10:36:13 -0500 Ben Kamen bka...@benjammin.net wrote: What's the config option so that sendmail accepts mail to a user's Full Name field? There's a really ancient Sendmail configuration directive that makes it look at the gecos

Re: [Mimedefang] Slightly OT: Sendmail config option for accepting user.n...@domain.com

2014-10-23 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 10/23/2014 2:01 PM, Kees Theunissen wrote: define(`confMATCH_GECOS',`true')dnl Don't use that! It is way too fuzzy and error prone. At least it was a long time ago on a Silicon Graphics Irix 5.x system. Sounds like some sed/awk parsing of passwd could create a very quick virtusertable table