Chris Thompson allegedly said:
> How exactly does this differ from the example in doc/spec.txt ? i.e.
>
> *@*.hitch.book.fict $1@???
> *@hitch.book.fict ${lookup{$1}dbm{/etc/realnames}\
> {$value}fail}@??? bcfrF
>
> Is it that the dbm lookup needs to depend on the host part stripped off
> the front of "humber.ac.uk", as well as the local part?
How about doing something like:
*@*.hitch.book.fict {$1}-{$2}@???
*@hitch.book.fict ${lookup{$1}dbm{/etc/realnames}\
{$value}fail}@??? bcfrF
so fred@??? becomes fred-bloggs@??? and
gets looked up in the list after that? Use something more interesting
than "-" as a separator if it worries you.
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