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Article #15CFR: "horton" - e-mail directory daemon
From: Andrew Patrick as CSR Moderator
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 20:00
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 20:00
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This is a Call for Reviewers for a new submission to the newsgroup
"comp.sources.reviewed". Instructions for responding to this CFR are
included at the end of this message.
Submission Name: horton
Environment: Unix
Number of shar parts: 3
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Description
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horton - an e-mail directory daemon, whois/ph server, and fuzzy mail forwarder
Horton automatically and silently creates a electronic mail address
directory by 'finger'ing each host in your domain periodically,
and lets users look up e-mail addresses with the 'whois' command.
If your company or university doesn't yet have an e-mail directory,
this package will provide you with one without much effort on your part.
It can also be a useful adjunct to a manually maintained e-mail directory,
because it is always up to date, whereas the manually maintained one can
lag weeks or months behind changes in the real world. (e.g. Caltech has
both a manual whois server and a Horton whois server.)
Besides accepting whois queries, Horton can also forward mail addressed
to John-Miller@horton to the most recent e-mail address for John Miller
in the whois database. This is sometimes called fuzzy name lookup.
Horton can, as a side effect, also accept ph queries.
The command
whois -h horton_server search_key
where
horton_server is the name of the computer running Horton
search_key is all or part of a person's name
lists all people whose name or username match the pattern.
Horton runs under Unix, and has been tested with SunOS 4.1.1 and
partially tested with HP/UX and NeXT Mach 2.0.
It requires sh, csh, and TCP/IP, and relies on other machines (possibly
VMS systems) to respond to Finger requests.
The mail forwarding feature requires sendmail and the Perl interpreted
language; the installation instructions mention where to obtain Perl.
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Andrew Patrick acting as Comp.Sources.Reviewed Moderator
Department of Communications, Ottawa, CANADA
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Newsgroups: comp.sources.testers,comp.sources.d,comp.mail.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!torn!cunews!dgbt!rick.dgbt.doc.ca!calvin.dgbt.doc.ca!csr From: csr@calvin.dgbt.doc.ca (Andrew Patrick as CSR Moderator) Subject: CFR: "horton" - e-mail directory daemon Message-ID: <1992Sep11.200050.21039@rick.dgbt.doc.ca> Followup-To: comp.sources.testers Sender: news@rick.dgbt.doc.ca Nntp-Posting-Host: calvin.dgbt.doc.ca Organization: Communications Research Centre, Ottawa Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 20:00:50 GMT Lines: 86