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In playing with the API crm_create_contact(), I've noticed that the duplicate checking is pretty dumb as compared to the check done when entering new contacts via the User Interface.

Under the API, as far as I can tell, it's only a match if the given parameters are EXACTLY the same. "John Smith of john@here.com" does not match "Johnathan Smith of john@here.com", for example, but in the UI, simply entering a matching e-mail address throws a warning.

Is there a way to make the API dupe check behave more like the UI  ?

I'm running CiviCRM 1.9.12432.

I worked my way down through the code and tried unsetting 'strict' mode as 'true' in for the call to CRM_Contact_BAO_Query::getWhereClause  from getWhereClause() in  /CRM/Core/BAO/UFGroup.php (Line 1055) but this didn't seem to make a difference. From what I can tell, this should make the difference between an exact match and a 'LIKE' match...

(But then again, I don't really know what I'm doing inside that much code...)

Any other ideas?