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From: mwg8908@ultb.isc.rit.edu (M.W. Goheen)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: sendmail.cf - help matching a class of domain names
Message-ID: <1659@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
Date: 22 Nov 89 23:43:07 GMT
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Information Systems
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I (and a few other sendmail.cf newcomers) spent a good deal of yesterday
bashing a config file senseless trying to get a rule that would strip
off all the possible addresses that were local to our site.  The list is
something like:

	ultb.isc.rit.edu
	isc.rit.edu
	ultb.rit.edu
	rit.edu
	ultb

I tried putting those in a class and matching them, but that didn't work,
I think probably because the tokens like "rit.edu" don't match the
broken apart form that sendmail generates (i.e. < "@" "rit" "." "edu" > ).
I ended up using a brute force kludge (generate a line for EACH possible
name).  We also tried used the $=w class, but couldn't seem to get
anywhere with that either (perhaps the same problem?).

Any tips/help would be greatly appreciated!


					Matt Goheen
					mwg8908@ultb.isc.rit.edu