Mail delivery question

From: Paul <paul_at_reginet.bham.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 10:49:15 GMT

Hello managers,

When using the POP server supplied with D-UNIX 3.2a I am experiencing the
following:

I have a user "afsmith" for whom I have set up both a Unix and an email(pop)
account with afsmith entered as the user in the POP database. Now , I've
found that email closely related to this name still gets through to the
user. For example, for my machine name 'abc' the following all get through
to afsmith:
a.f.smith_at_abc.uk.ac
smith_at_abc.uk.ac
afsmith_at_abc.uk.ac

the entry in the alias file for this user is:

afsmith: afsmith_at_pop

Is this usual? How can I control this 'smart' method of delivery i.e. turn
it off?

BTW I have checked for OG in sendmail.cf and it is not there - something to
do with MATCHGECOS I believe.

Cheers

Paul Key
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