Full-Name:
The sender’s full name sendmail
The Full-Name:
header is used to list the sender’s full name if it
is known. The field for this header can be arbitrary
text but is usually the value in the $x macro ($x on page 851):
H?x?Full-Name: $x H?x?Full-Name: (User names hidden for security)
The Full-Name:
header should be prefixed with the ?x? flag so that
selected delivery agents can require inclusion of
that header. This heade0 Early versions of UUCP
could not accept full names in From: header
lines:
From: host!user ( full name ) ← did not work for early UUCPThe Full-Name:
header can be specified in the configuration file.
If this header is already in the mail message,
sendmail does not replace
it.
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