aggarwal@jvnc.net (Vikas Aggarwal) (04/26/91)
I am running the latest version of sendmail from Berkeley on a couple of Suns. I need to configure my sendmail to start accepting mail for user@foo.com, as well as users@another.foo2 and so on. The problem I have is that I cannot define a *class* of domains to match- since the '.' exists in the list of separators, the address 'foo.com' resolves into two (three) tokens -"foo" and "com". When asked to match any of the domains (names) in the class X (using $=X), no match is found because the mailer tries to match the split up tokens against the full names. foo against foo.com, another.foo2 com against - do - (For those interested, they can see STAB at work by running sendmail in test mode using '-d36.5'). My question is this - "Can I safely remove the '.' from the list of separators in the config file (Do.:%@!^=/[]) ??" Without the '.', the token matching works just the way I want it to. I just want some input before I screw up a lot of mail (my host is used as a pretty large gateway so I have to be careful). P.S. I remember seeing something on the net about the Ida sendmail mailer where they had mentioned that the '.' in the list of separators was a carryover from teh old Berknet days and should be removed. I hope this has not been discussed before. I am new to this group. Direct replies would be appreciated. -vikas vikas@jvnc.net (609) 258-2403 Network Engineering -2400 JvNCnet, Princeton, NJ -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) (04/26/91)
In article <1991Apr26.045337.10580@jvnc.net> vikas@r2d2.jvnc.net (Vikas Aggarwal) writes: >I am running the latest version of sendmail from Berkeley on a couple of >Suns. Both the IDA versions of sendmail and your Sun supplied 'sendmail' support multi-token class matches. >My question is this - "Can I safely remove the '.' from the list of >separators in the config file (Do.:%@!^=/[]) ??" If you do this you lose all ability to recognize address such as node.BITNET or node.UUCP and treat them differently from mail with Internet addresses. You lose a great deal of flexibility. >P.S. I remember seeing something on the net about the Ida sendmail mailer >where they had mentioned that the '.' in the list of separators was a >carryover from teh old Berknet days and should be removed. This was a comment about addresses of the form x.y without any '@' in it at all. It had nothing to do with the '.' within domain specifications. -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science <rickert@cs.niu.edu> Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115 +1-815-753-6940