My original question was:
"I would like to create long names for users in their e-mail addresses.
An example:
jimi.hendrix_at_guitar.play.com
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Is it necessary to do login names with more than 8 characteres? If the
answer is "yes", how can I do it?"
Thanks for all:
*Leon Troeth <lanks_at_ccds.cc.monash.edu.au>
Make a mail alias. Have a look at the file /etc/aliases, and add a line
like this:
jimi.hendrix:jimi
Where jimi.hendrix is the mail alias and jimi is the user's real login
name. After you edit the file, run the program
newaliases
* Gyula Szokoly <szgyula_at_skysrv.Pha.Jhu.EDU>
No, actually it's not even supported on every platform. You create mail
aliases instead.
* danno_at_large.com (Dan Notov)
Try man aliases.
You can create these alias entries in the file /var/adm/sendmail/aliases.
Aliases are entered in the following form:
alias: name1, name2, ..., namen.
So, you can try the following:
jimi.hendrix: jhendrix_at_guitar.play.com
Then, run sendmail -bi to re-create the dbm database files.
* Michel.Royer_at_iut-nantes.univ-nantes.fr (Michel.Royer)
If hou use sendmail as central mail program, you can use aliases
----> man aliases.
* Lucio Chiappetti <lucio_at_ifctr.mi.cnr.it>
NO, e-mail addresses may be just entries in the aliases file.
Depending on how your network is set up, this can be a local file on
the mail hub (/etc/aliases on most systems, /var/adm/sendmail/aliases
on OSF), or a NIS-mantained network-wide map.
In the alias file you have just entries of the form :
nickname: loginname_at_machine
* Herve DEMARTHE (CEA France) <demarthe_at_alpha.cad.cea.fr>
Just use E-mail aliases.
Locally : /var/adm/sendmail/aliases + newaliases
With NIS : /car/yp/src/mail.aliases + make
* Benoit Maillard - Digital France- dtn: "858-1243 / ext: 33 1 69 87 12 43"
<maillard_at_atyisa.enet.dec.com>
Just add an entry in the /etc/aliases file like the following:
jimi.hendrix:Real_UserName_at_machine.domain
Then rebuild the aliases database with newaliases(8)
* Murthy Hebbar <murthy_at_dicer.incyte.com>
You don't have to have the same name for logins. You can map the
corresponding email address with the login name using /etc/aliases.
*David Hoyt <dhoyt_at_oem.net>
use /usr/adm/sendmail/aliases
entries follow
joe.user: joeu_at_machine.domain.dom
* Matti Saarinen <mjs_at_butler.cc.tut.fi>
The answer is "no". Only thing you must do is to define alias for
login name in the mail alias file.
The location of the alias file is usually under /var/adm/sendmail.
* Jean-Loup.Risler_at_genetique.uvsq.fr (Jean-Loup Risler)
You must do the following things.
- Let us suppose your login name is yamamoto (which is probable...)
- you want your e-mail address to be Futoshi.Yamamoto
1) in /usr/var/adm/sendmail create a file called revaliases if it does
not already exist.
In this file put one line:
yamamoto: futoshi.yamamoto
NO blank at the beginning, ONE blank after the :
2) In the same directory there should be a file called aliases
Add one line:
futoshi.yamamoto:yamamoto WITHOUT any blank
3) type
newaliases
so that the new alias in "aliases" are known
4) type
/usr/lib/sendmail -bi -oA/usr/var/adm/sendmail/revaliases
^
letter, not zero
so that the revalias is known
And that's all. Of course you can add several revaliases and aliases in one
pass before typing the two above commands.
* rioux_at_ip6480nl.ce.utexas.edu (Tom Rioux)
look into /usar/var/adm/sendmail/aliases
man aliases
* huber_at_kodak.com (Ron Huber)
The simple way is to use aliases.
* Jim Neeland <neeland_at_madmax.hrl.hac.com>
You may already have received many answers, but, just in case...
Use the alias facility. Look at the file /var/adm/sendmail/aliases
for the format of entries. After modifying the file, be sure to issue
the 'newaliases' command to get sendmail to recognize the changes.
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| real name: | Jorge Futoshi Yamamoto |
| e-mail: | jorge.yamamoto_at_hcnet.usp.br |
| organization:| CIA - HC - FMUSP |
| geography: | Sao Paulo - Brazil |
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Received on Thu Oct 03 1996 - 00:47:38 NZST