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Started by RThirlby
Wed, 08 Feb 1989 08:04
campus mail service
Author: RThirlby
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 1989 08:04
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 1989 08:04
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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. we are in the middle of procuring a new main campus general purpose and mail system, the only systems on the shortlist are all UNIX. We have about 4000 registered users and expect this to increase with a better mail service. I am frightened as to the size and search time of an alias file with several entries per user. We clearly need to use the alias system for users whos mailboxes are elsewhere but feel that an algorithm approach should be possible for users with local mailboxes given a sensible choice of username strategy. We cant be the first to do this sort of thing??? Rob Thirlby, loughborough Univ Computer centre.
Re: campus mail service
Author: Andrew Hilborne
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1989 17:28
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1989 17:28
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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.
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