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Andrew.Hilborne@newcastle.ac.uk (Andrew Hilborne) (02/14/89)

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!

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