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From: Andrew.Hilborne@newcastle.ac.uk (Andrew Hilborne)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,mail.uk-sendmail-workers
Subject: Re: campus mail service
Summary: Sendmail already provides fuzzy matching against /etc/passwd
Keywords: fuzzy matching mail
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Date: 13 Feb 89 17:28:20 GMT
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In article <890208080455.315886@UK.AC.LOUGHBOROUGH.MULTICS>
	RThirlby@MULTICS.LOUGHBOROUGH.AC.UK writes:

> Is it possible to include code in a sendmail system to fuzzy
> match incoming mailnames using (say) the fields of the
> password file as basic data.
...
> Rob Thirlby, loughborough Univ Computer centre.

Incredibly sendmail already tries to do fuzzy matching against user names
in /etc/passwd.  There is a comment in the code to the effect that
sendmail already spends much of its time in the fuzzy-matching routine
which could do with being optimsied!

--
Andrew Hilborne, MARI Ltd, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.