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- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 22:25:07 GMT
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- From: "Daniel C. Newman" <DAN@INNOSOFT.COM>
- Subject: RE: User defined directory service?
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- > We have a database matching user full names, dept , ... to their mail id.
- > I would like to interface this somehow into PMDF. What I want to be
- > able to do is to have a "user defined" directory capability. For example,
- > I may want to permit a query structure that is last.first@mc.duke.edu
- > where one may have only a piece of that last name (i.e. would have to allow fo
- r
- > combinations of possibilities as well as multiple identical names).
- >
- > As far as I can tell, PMDF only allows a one-to-one matching (i.e. jim =
- > dryfo001 or dryfoos.jim = dryfo001). I would like to do more than this.
- > Perhaps I need a rewrite rule that maps * to my homebrew channel?
-
- No, this would have nothing to do with rewrite rules. You'd identify all
- addresses destined for your channel by the domain name (just like the
- directory channel does).
-
- > Is this possible? I have currently been adding an alias for all users that
- > are not on the local system and that must go through my homebrew channel.
- > Once in my channel, I can do anything with the destination address.
- >
- > Appreciate any responce or suggestions. Sorry if I have just
- > overlooked something that already exists.
-
- You might consider using the directory channel as a starting point and
- modify it (the code) to do your style of name matching. Note also that there
- is a channel called, I believe, Name Router, which does name matching of the
- sort I think you're looking for. Name Router was, if I recall correctly,
- originally authored by Tom Wade. It is available from various sites via
- anonymous FTP. (I don't keep track of which sites though.)
-
- Dan
-