[Mimedefang] Slightly OT: Sendmail config option for accepting user.name at domain.com

Ben Kamen bkamen at benjammin.net
Thu Oct 23 15:09:18 EDT 2014



On 2014-10-23 1:31 PM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote:
> On 10/23/2014 2:01 PM, Kees Theunissen wrote:
>> define(`confMATCH_GECOS',`true')dnl
>>
>> Don't use that! It is way too fuzzy and error prone. At least it was
>> a long time ago on a Silicon Graphics Irix 5.x system.
> Sounds like some sed/awk parsing of passwd could create a very quick virtusertable table instead...

Kees brings up some good experience that I've never run into...

Ultimately, I'm not worried about it since it's only a few users that need it.

sed/awk could be fun -- but with the number of entries I need (maybe 3?), not needed.

Thanks all...

   -Ben



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