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From: gamiddle@maytag.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: LOCALDOMAIN and $w
Message-ID: <1990Jul22.165315.25316@maytag.waterloo.edu>
Date: 22 Jul 90 16:53:15 GMT
References: <1990Jul20.203238.12791@maytag.waterloo.edu> <DAVEL.90Jul20165410@george.arc.nasa.gov>
Organization: University of Waterloo Software Commando Squad
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In article <DAVEL.90Jul20165410@george.arc.nasa.gov> davel@george.arc.nasa.gov (Dave Liebreich) writes:
> $=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.

Yes, I do know all this, and it's not what I want.  The whole point of $w and
$=w is that I don't have to explictly assign the host name in the .cf file;
it should be done automatically.  We use the same sendmail.cf on several
dozen machines.  I need to have some way of assigning both domain names
without having the host name in the file.