From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 19 3:47:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ED4637B423 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 03:47:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 11:46:57 +0100 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14qBwP-0006RU-00; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 11:45:37 +0100 Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 11:45:37 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant To: Andrew Hesford Cc: Pablo Quintana , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: A dot in the username In-Reply-To: <20010418175911.A69031@cec.wustl.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 The Java disclaimer: values of 'anywhere' may vary between regions. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message