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Subject: RE: address rewriting?
From: Brad Knowles (blkskynet.be)
Date: Wed Mar 29 2000 - 04:46:12 CST

At 10:57 PM -0500 2000/3/28, Jim Seymour wrote:

> 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:

        What would you do if you had two different people with the name
"Stephen R. Bourne", as AT&T Bell Labs did back in the 1970's, and
only one of which was the creator of the "Bourne Shell"? What if
they had offices in the same building and on the same floor, and they
were just a few offices apart?

        This is an age-old problem. See Q3.5 of the Sendmail FAQ at
<http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section3.html#3.5>. 

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