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From: spike@world.std.com (Joe Ilacqua)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: '.' goes to Class
Message-ID: <1989Nov9.222750.14437@world.std.com>
Date: 9 Nov 89 22:27:50 GMT
Reply-To: spike@world.std.com (Joe Ilacqua)
Organization: Software Tool & Die
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	I want to put a fully qualified host name in a class of hosts
that handled specially.  Something like this:

CL somehost.com

	Which will somewhere find a rule that looks like:

R$*<@$=L>$*         (whatever)

	And in fact, using the SUNOS 4.0.3 sendmail this works.  The
above rule will match given something like "user@<somehost.com>".

	However in the BSD Sendmail 5.61 the above rule dosen't match,
and shouldn't since '.' is a delimiter (operator), the somehost.com
parses to "somehost" "." "com".

	So the question is, can I get around this?  (Yes, I can always
hard code each host, but...)  I assume SUN has changed the code and I
could if I had to (again "but...")

->Spike
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