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From: jaynes@med.umich.edu (William Jaynes)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Inexact addresses
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Date: 19 Dec 90 20:26:00 GMT
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Is there any version of sendmail that allows for inexact addresses.  I know that
the FUZZY option in the IDA version enables a last ditch matching on the name
field in /etc/passwd.  Is this available using some arbitrary file other than
/etc/passwd?  The senario I'm thinking of is the following:
  - Mail comes in.
  - Sendmail resolves it local and tries to deliver
  - Delivery fails
  - Before bouncing the message, sendmail takes the local part of the
    address and tries some kind of matching within some file.
  - If some match succeeds sendmail tries to deliver using what was returned
  - If that fails then bounce the message

Anything like this out there?