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