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From: sow@cad.luth.se (Sven-Ove Westberg)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: sendmail.cf - help matching a class of domain names
Message-ID: <1408@ulmo1.mt.luth.se>
Date: 1 Dec 89 10:11:42 GMT
References: <1659@ultb.isc.rit.edu> <11720@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <1091@legato.LEGATO.COM>
Reply-To: Sven-Ove Westberg <sow@cad.luth.se>
Organization: University of Lulea, Sweden
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In article <1091@legato.LEGATO.COM> nowicki@legato (Bill Nowicki) writes:
|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.
|

This is only partly true in the "IDA Enhancements". The feature
is only implemented in match (eg $=C ) not in the negoation (eg $~C ).

Has some one fixed this flaw in the "IDA Enhancements"? 

Sven-Ove Westberg, CAD, University of Lulea, S-951 87 Lulea, Sweden.