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From: news@bellcore.bellcore.com (news)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Site-Wide aliases (summary)
Message-ID: <18184@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Date: 10 Nov 89 18:00:44 GMT
Reply-To: nrh@buzz.bellcore.com
Organization: Bell Communications Research, Morristown NJ
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I asked some time ago for folks to send me information on how they made
"user@site.com" mail go where it was supposed to go, for wide values of
"user" and large values of "site".  The reason I asked the question was
that I wish to support some such thing here at bellcore, so that:


	nrh@bellcore.com
	nat-howard@bellcore.com
	nat-r-howard@bellcore.com
	n-r-howard@bellcore.com

... and so on all work, even if "nrh" doesn't really have an account on 
the machine called "bellcore.com".

Generating all such possibilities and sticking
them in our aliases database is, I suppose, a possibility, but this
sounds expensive to me.

A little thought convinced me that others must be up against this same
problem, so I asked the net about it. 

I got one note from a person at an Unnamed Institution who had done
something like this, and was willing to send me his stuff strictly on a
"here, maybe this would help you build your own" basis.  I gather he
does not wish to be named, and he does not want his software further
distributed.  Please don't ask me about this -- perhaps he would
answer queries on the net, but that's up to him.

I got a note saying that "mail addresses at sun.com are aliased, but I
don't know what package/hacks they use for it..."

I got several notes reminding me that I had said I'd summarize.

Finally, I got several messages suggesting I look into the Andrew
White Pages system which (I'm told) will be on the X11R4 tape.  I plan
to do this.