What (implicit) option control translation "user" to "first lastname"?

I have working postfix setup but there is one thing I don't quite understand where it comes from (and that bothers me) I only use one map which is a "sender_canonical" map to translate local user to a valid external email address. This works fine. However postfix also adds the full name (as take

Re: What (implicit) option control translation "user" to "first lastname"?

Johan Persson: > So I get the translation something along the lines of > > "u...@localhost.nil" => "first lastname " This is not the default Postfix format. The "first lastname" information was provided by the mail client, not Postfix. Wietse

Re: What (implicit) option control translation "user" to "first lastname"?

On 2011-07-07 16:09, Johan Persson wrote: I have working postfix setup but there is one thing I don't quite understand where it comes from (and that bothers me) I only use one map which is a "sender_canonical" map to translate local user to a valid external email address. This works fine. Howev

Re: What (implicit) option control translation "user" to "first lastname"?

Thanks. After looking into this I verified that using a manual SMTP sending this does not happen and the conclusion is therefore that the simple "mail" command will create this from address based on the passwd file. That surprised me since I thought that the "mail" command didn't do any elabora