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- From: jack@ccsf.caltech.edu (Jack Stewart)
- Subject: SUMMARY: "Wildcards in the DOMAINTABLE"
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.173241.13306@cco.caltech.edu>
- Keywords: ruleset #8, domaintable, multiple domains
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- Organization: CCSF Caltech, Pasadena, CA
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 17:32:41 GMT
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- QUESTION: How do you make ida-sendmail look for multiple domain names
- to fully qualify 'user@host'
-
- SOLUTION: The answer to modify Ruleset #8 in the sendmail.cf to look
- up addition domains using the $[...$] construct. You will need to add
- a rule for each domain that you wish to add.
-
- However having said that it is not clear that this would be
- desireable. This could lead to ambiguties and name conflicts. So far
- I have been careful to make sure that there are no like names in my
- subdomain and in the caltech.edu domain. However, there are some 25
- subdomains within caltech.edu so it is quite likely there could be
- like names between the different subdomains.
-
- The DOMAINTABLE can be used to qualify specific hostnames. For right
- now, this seems to be enough. Fortuneately whenever there is a
- bounce, the error message is quite specific ("unable to resolve
- hostname, please used fully qualified address") so I will probably not
- modify Ruleset #8 unless I get desperate.
-
- Many thanks to the following people for their help and input:
-
- Neil W Rickert <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
- jlange@ugcs.caltech.edu (Jon E. Lange)
- Christophe Wolfhugel <Christophe.Wolfhugel@univ-lyon1.fr>
- Nigel Metheringham <nigelm@ohm.york.ac.uk>
-
-
- ---Jack
-
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