Add a way to pass fullname to the From header

[bigon]

Hi,

It would be nice if there was a away to add the user fullname to the From header when sending a mail.

Maybe the EMAIL environment variable could be abused and dma could be extended to detect cases like 'name [email protected]'? Or maybe there is a more suitable way?

Cheers

[corecode]

How do other MTAs handle this? I think we should align ourselves with them.

On 07/06/2013 12:54 AM, Laurent Bigonville wrote:

Hi,

It would be nice if there was a away to add the user fullname to the
From header when sending a mail.

Maybe the EMAIL environment variable could be abused and dma could be
extended to detect cases like 'name [email protected]
mailto:[email protected]'? Or maybe there is a more suitable way?

Cheers

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#16.

[bigon]

Hi,

Quickly looking at ssmtp code, it seems that it uses gecos information to guess the full name. (I initially thought it was also using EMAIL env parameter).

[corecode]

We can use gecos. We should just should make sure that it doesn't
result in an invalid address.

On 07/06/2013 03:01 PM, Laurent Bigonville wrote:

Hi,

Quickly looking at ssmtp code, it seems that it uses gecos information
to guess the full name. (I initially thought it was also using EMAIL
env parameter).

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#16 (comment).

[michael-o]

Both sendmail and postfix will use GECOS with getpwnam().