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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: wanted: mail user agent that verifies local addresses before sending
Message-ID: <1991Apr22.161630.6115@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 22 Apr 91 16:16:30 GMT
References: <51080@andante.att.com> <1991Apr21.182511.1077@fwhnm02.fwrdc.rtsg.mot.com>
Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
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In article <1991Apr21.182511.1077@fwhnm02.fwrdc.rtsg.mot.com> mmuegel@fwhnm02.fwrdc.rtsg.mot.com (Mike Muegel) writes:

>Elm provides a mechanism to do just this. When you configure Elm you have
>the option of automaitically expanding local user's name when they are
>typed in. Thus, when the user types in:

>   To: mmuegel
>You get a little status line that says:
>   To: Michael S. Muegel
>So if you typed wrong it will not expand it and it will just print the 
>incorrect login-id and you know you screwed up!

This is a nice touch, but it isn't appropriate for all situations.  If
you have a huge passwd file the lookup can be pretty slow.  If your
mail transport provides aliasing, you may be able to use addresses
that appear to be local that do not exist in your passwd file.

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us