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From: davel@george.arc.nasa.gov (Dave Liebreich)
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Subject: Re: LOCALDOMAIN and $w
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Date: 20 Jul 90 23:54:10 GMT
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In-reply-to: gamiddle@maytag.waterloo.edu's message of 20 Jul 90 20:32:38 GMT

In article <1990Jul20.203238.12791@maytag.waterloo.edu> gamiddle@maytag.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton) writes:

   We have two equivalent mail domains (waterloo.edu and uwaterloo.ca), but $w is
   only set to one of these by sendmail.  If a user has LOCALDOMAIN set to the
   other one, local mail is bounced, because the match against $=w fails.


$=w matches against the *class* w, which is set via Cwxxx yyy zzz in
the .cf file.  You are confusing this with the macro w, which is
supposed to be the local hostname, set via Dwhostname in .cf.

Do the following in your sendmail.cf file:

Cwhost.waterloo.edu host.uwaterloo.ca

and things should be ok.

p.s. Please note that you can't do a 

Cw$w.waterloo.edu $w.uwaterloo.ca

because sendmail 5.64 does not evaluate macros in class definition
lines.

-dave
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