[2314] in Athena Bugs
full names in from fields
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mar@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed May 31 23:12:56 1989
From: <mar@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 31 May 89 23:12:30 EDT
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, postmaster@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, mar@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Richard and I did a little testing, and determined that even if the
from field includes the full name when it leaves the workstation:
From: Mark A. Rosenstein <mar@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
it gets stripped off by the mailhub during forwarding.
As near as we can figure it, the workstation currently doesn't add the
full name for the same reason that the mailhub strips it: at the
workstation, the sender isn't local (mar@ATHENA != mar@TOTO), so the
name isn't added, and on the mailhub local user mar isn't in the
password file, so he has an empty real name.
So the two halves of the fix are to get workstations to put the full
name there, and to get the mailhub to not screw with it.
-Mark
