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From: spike@world.std.com (Joe Ilacqua)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: LOCALDOMAIN and $w
Message-ID: <SPIKE.90Jul24134837@world.std.com>
Date: 24 Jul 90 17:48:37 GMT
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Sender: spike@world.std.com (Joe Ilacqua)
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In-Reply-To: gamiddle@maytag.waterloo.edu's message of 22 Jul 90 16:53:15 GMT


In article <1990Jul22.165315.25316@maytag.waterloo.edu> gamiddle@maytag.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton) writes:
>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.

	If one is a CNAME of the other, you could do something like:

R$+@$+			$:$1@$[$2$]		

Given a CNAME of your host this should return the same value as
contained in $w (at least if the code is to be believed).

->Spike  (Spike@World.STD.com)
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