Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
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From: gamiddle@maytag.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton)
Subject: Re: LOCALDOMAIN and $w
Message-ID: <1990Jul25.162735.2148@maytag.waterloo.edu>
Organization: University of Waterloo Software Commando Squad
References: <1990Jul20.203238.12791@maytag.waterloo.edu> <DAVEL.90Jul20165410@george.arc.nasa.gov> <1990Jul22.165315.25316@maytag.waterloo.edu> <ANSELMO-ED.90Jul23101052@bigbird.cs.yale.edu>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 90 16:27:35 GMT
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In article <ANSELMO-ED.90Jul23101052@bigbird.cs.yale.edu> Anselmo-Ed@cs.yale.edu (Ed Anselmo) writes:
> Try something like:
> 
> # All nicknames for this host
> Fw/usr/local/lib/net_database/this_host %s

This works, but I still have local state.  Generating
/usr/local/lib/net_database/this_host is really no different from putting the
names in the file -- we still have a unique configuration on each machine, and
need some software to generate it.

For maximum portability, the .cf file (and any files it references) should not
have to be changed when copied to a new machine.

If classes could be defined by making shell calls, I would do this:

Cw!echo `hostname`.waterloo.edu `hostname`.uwaterloo.ca

Or maybe I could define a new macro that contains all the local domains, and
the code in sendmail's startup would use it to assign $=w.