The answer to this one is sendmail has a "fuzzy matching" feature that
will try to find the person by the gcos field if there is no account
or alias. It would seem this feature can be turned off, but I've not
figured out how yet.. Below is the original question..
-- Brian
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Brian Weaver weaver_at_pr1.k12.co.us
System Administrator PoudreR1 School District
My opinions are my own and not that of the Poudre R1 School District.
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Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 08:18:49 -0600 (MDT)
From: Brian Weaver <weaver_at_pr1.k12.co.us>
To: OSF managers <alpha-osf-managers_at_ornl.gov>
Subject: VERY VERY strange sendmail behavior
I have a user on the system who's account name is gatrant, well
emailing him at gatrant_at_pr1.k12.co.us, and so does emailing
gene_at_pr1.k12.co.us. The strange thing is no one set up an alias so
gene forwards to gatrant. I check the aliases file in /var/adm/sendmail
and there is nothing in there about gene or gatrant. Also, there is
no account called gene that is forwarding mail.. Here is some output
so you can see whats going on..
weaver_at_alpha$ finger -mp gatrant
Login name: gatrant In real life: Gene A. Trant
Directory: /home/gatrant Shell: /bin/ksh
Last login Fri Sep 15 07:35 on ttype from 164.104.30.56
weaver_at_alpha$ finger -mp gene
Login name: gene In real life: ???
weaver_at_alpha$ telnet alpha 25
Trying 164.104.1.27...
Connected to alpha.pr1.k12.co.us.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 alpha.pr1.k12.co.us Sendmail 5.65 (1.1.8.2/16Jul95-0251PM) Fri, 15 Sep 1995 08:17:34 -0600
vrfy gene
250 gene... Gene A. Trant <gene>
Please help, I can't figure out how this is happening if gene is not
in the sendmail aliases file, and I even did a newaliases command incase
he used to be, but the problem still exists..
-- Brian
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Brian Weaver weaver_at_pr1.k12.co.us
System Administrator PoudreR1 School District
My opinions are my own and not that of the Poudre R1 School District.
Received on Fri Sep 15 1995 - 18:42:45 NZST