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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!dutrun!dutiws!maas
- From: maas@dutiws.tudelft.nl (Frank Maas)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
- Subject: sendmail & classes: a bug?
- Summary: The classmembership seems to work in a buggy way
- Keywords: sendmail, mail, bsd, bugs
- Message-ID: <2076@dutiws.tudelft.nl>
- Date: 5 Sep 92 15:43:16 GMT
- Organization: Delft University of Technology
- Lines: 46
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- Hello,
-
- Currently we are taking a better look at our sendmail configuration and wanted
- to use a .cf file of our Sun-neighbours. Apart from some expectable differences,
- we found a strange behaviour in the handling of classmembership.
-
- The line
-
- Cm myname.mydomain myname.mydomain.mycountry my.other.full.name
-
- creates a class named 'm' which contains the list of myname-names. This is a
- correct definition. Now the sun-.cf file has the following construction:
-
- $+$=m
-
- which means one or more tokens, which are -concatenated- contained in class m.
-
- However, this combination doesn't seem to exist in my BSD source of sendmail
- (5.67). And thus it isn't possible to get a match of myname.mydomain.mycountry
- for instance. In the sun way, this is matched :
-
- 'myname' is no part of class m
- 'myname.' is no part of class m
- ..
- 'myname.mydomain.' is no part of class m
- 'myname.mydomain.mycountry' is part of class m: MATCH
-
- My sendmail does:
-
- 'myname' is no part of class m
- '.' is no part of class m
- ...
- 'mycountry' is no part of class m: NO MATCH.
-
- Is this a bug? If so: is it patched? If not (patched): do you like to have
- a patch?
-
- You could post your answers, but also mail them to me. I will post a summary.
-
- With regards,
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