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- From: ianh@resmel.bhp.com.au (Ian Hoyle)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.admin
- Subject: Re: HELP! --- sendmail.cf updated from 3.x to 4.0.5
- Date: 28 Jan 93 11:23:42 GMT
- Organization: BHP Research - Melbourne Laboratories
- Lines: 47
- Message-ID: <ianh.728220222@morgana>
- References: <C1In95.KzD@ie.utoronto.ca>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: morgana.resmel.bhp.com.au
-
- garym@ie.utoronto.ca (Gary Murphy) writes:
-
- >For most installations, this may not be much of a problem, but here in
- >a large university, domain organization is not so friendly. I managed
- >to sort through enough to restore our outgoing mail and the plain
- >vanilla incoming addresses, but one problem remains that is causing
- >headaches for our feeder sites: virtual.rose.utoronto.ca is also
- >(apparently often) referred to as virtual.rose.toronto.edu or
- >virtual.toronto.edu --- in its present state, my sendmail.cf is
- >rejecting mail with those addresses.
-
- Gary,
-
- The sendmail.cf.latest in sgi/sendmail on sgi.com (available via
- anonymous ftp) includes the following ruleset:
-
- #### w class ###############################################################
- # Alternate names by which this host may be known.
- # This class is pre-set to contain the h_name and all h_aliases of this host
- # as returned by gethostbyname(3N). If additional aliases are required,
- # they may be added here.
- Cw
-
-
- If you add the host names you mention in this rule set, your host
- will accept mail addressed to these domains -- you are in effect
- telling your mailer that these are pseudonyms for your real domain.
-
- My eternal gratitude for Robert Stephens of SGI for adding this class at
- my suggestion some time back ..... :-)
-
- ian
-
- PS another route to take would be to build sendmail 5.65c/IDA-1.4.4.1
- which allows even greater control and flexibility. Your mileage will
- vary.
- --
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