[imp] Not displaying full name set in /etc/passwd

[Mike Coughlan]

Are you sure you are not seeing the php5 "bug" where mail is sent from a
system user "on behalf of" the mail author? IMP is a series of conduits to
other system tools and services. I'm not sure that anyone really knows where
"From-Admin" is coming from, and why IMP preferences are the best or only
fix. I would create a test user, and use that to try and fix the problem
outside of IMP.


> On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 06:33:41PM +0200, David Wilson wrote:
>
> > I've been batteling with this but I can't seem to get it right:
> > All my users 1000+ have had their full name changed to "From-Admin" in
> > /etc/passwd by some silly accounting package, when my users log
> in to IMP
> > and send email their display name appears as "From-Admin"  *bleh*, the
> only
> > way for my users to change their full name is to go to "preferences" in
> IMP
> > and set their full name where it's then stored in MySQL.
> >
> > What I thought of for a quick solution is to tell IMP not to read the
> > display name from /etc/passwd, if the user hasn't set a full name under
> > IMP's "preferences" then IMP must just set the display name to the users
> > email address ....i.e
> > user1@mydomain.com ?
>
> IMP never reads /etc/passwd.  It must be your mail server or some
> other service that's adding the "From-Admin" name.