Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!legato!nowicki
From: nowicki@legato (Bill Nowicki)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: sendmail.cf - help matching a class of domain names
Summary: IDA, Sun
Message-ID: <1091@legato.LEGATO.COM>
Date: 30 Nov 89 17:56:59 GMT
References: <1659@ultb.isc.rit.edu> <11720@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Reply-To: nowicki@legato (Bill Nowicki)
Organization: Legato Systems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA
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In article <11720@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> viktor@fine.Princeton.EDU (Viktor Dukhovni) writes:
>
>	$=C can only match a single(!) token,  rit.edu (e.g.) is two
>tokens,  and will never be matched by a Class C containing rit.edu

Note that one of the "IDA Enhancements" that was adopted by Sun
eliminates the above restriction.  That is, in SunOS 4.x sendmail,
class matches do work with any number of tokens, not just a single
atom.  This was an essential feature to make the same subsidiary .cf
file work for any number of levels in the domain name.

	-- WIN