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- From: elsn4000@bronto.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Frank Elsner)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
- Subject: Aliases for local hosts in sendmail.cf
- Date: 12 Jan 1993 10:18:27 GMT
- Organization: TUBerlin/ZRZ
- Lines: 46
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <1iu5tjINNhu@mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: bronto.zrz.tu-berlin.de
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- There is a question on handling aliases for host names in "sendmail.cf"
- for handling local mail.
-
- Most of the "sendmail.cf"s I've seen and in use do it this way:
-
- S6
- R$*<@$=w>$* $:$1<@$w.$D>$3
- R$*<@$=w.$D>$* $:$1<@$w.$D>$3
- R$*<@$=U.UUCP>$* $:$1<@$w.$D>$3
- ..
- ..
- ..
- S0
- ..
- ..
- ..
- R$+<@$w>$* #local$:$1
- R$+<@$w.$D>$* #local$:$1
- ..
- ..
- ..
-
- This leads to a rewrite of the hostname, hiding the original name.
-
-
- Why not doing it the following way, which keeps the original ?
-
- S6
- ..
- ..
- ..
- S0
- ..
- ..
- ..
- R$+<@$w>$* #local$:$1
- R$+<@$w.$D>$* #local$:$1
- R$+<@$=w>$* #local$:$1
- R$+<@$=w.$D>$* #local$:$1
- ..
- ..
- ..
-
- Is there a significant reason for doing it the first way ?
-
- Frank Elsner (TUBerlin Postmaster)
-