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From: paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Paul Pomes - UofIllinois CSO)
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Subject: Re: Inexact addresses
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Date: 21 Dec 90 19:35:02 GMT
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jaynes@med.umich.edu (William Jaynes) writes:


>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

This is no big deal to do.  Replace the #ifdef'ed FUZZY code in recipient.c
with your customized code.  Henry Spencer's regex package could be used to
good effect.

A lot depends on what you want to do and the worst-case consequences of
mis-delivered mail.

/pbp
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