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Date:      Thu, 19 Apr 2001 11:45:37 +0100 (BST)
From:      Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
To:        Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx>
Cc:        Pablo Quintana <quintana@netsys.hn>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: A dot in the username
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.31.0104191143400.26295-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20010418175911.A69031@cec.wustl.edu>

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On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Andrew Hesford wrote:

>  Some mail
> servers, for instance exim, don't even need a hashed database--they just
> parse /etc/aliases directly.

Lest mail admins reading this are put off forever, exim has the
_capability_ to do this; you can get it to talk to a squillion other
kinds of data sources for its information.

-- 
jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/
Tel +44(0)117 9287163 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk
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