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Subject: RE: address rewriting?
From: Jim Seymour (jseymourLinxNet.com)
Date: Tue Mar 28 2000 - 21:57:11 CST

Adam Bowen <abowendriveway.com> wrote:
>
> sorry I didn't get your initial mail - I just signed up for this list

No matter.

>
> you've shown how it's possible to _manually_ add address rewrites, & I agree
> alias tables are the way to go for that. but I'm looking for a way to do it
> "on the fly", using regular expressions.
[snip]

Aside from the mechanics of telling Postfix to do this... I can see
how one might design a regex to convert Firstname.Lastname to
FirstInitialLastName, but the regex code would have to be a mind reader
to automagically determine how to convert an un-delimited arbitrary
string to another arbitrary string, as in:

    albundy -> abundy
    joeshmoe -> jshmoe
    phredphlintstone -> pphlintstone
             - or -
    phredphlintstone -> pphlints
    etc.

without an explicit regex for each /this/that/. In which case you'd
be better off with a dbm/hash table.

Or have I once again misunderstood the goal?

Regards,
Jim 

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