Add a way to pass fullname to the From header #16

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1. corecode commented on Jul 6, 2013

   

   corecode

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   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 user@domain.tld
   mailto:user@domain.tld'? Or maybe there is a more suitable way?

   Cheers

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2. bigon commented on Jul 6, 2013

   

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   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).
3. corecode commented on Jul 6, 2013

   

   corecode

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   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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4. michael-o commented on Apr 15, 2024

   

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