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From: hubert@milton.u.washington.edu (Steve Hubert)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Local Configuration Error
Message-ID: <8187@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 27 Sep 90 01:31:07 GMT
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>                    Namely, when an SMTP connection is made, there is
>a comparison of the values of $j (as exchanged in the SMTP greeting) to
>see if the host is talking to itself.  From this reason alone you could
>argue that $j is the correct comparison.


This is kind of off the subject but it seems to me that the "Local
configuration error" detection is flawed.  The method of detection
as it stands now prohibits any local smtp client from talking to the
local sendmail smtp server.  It should only be preventing instances of
itself from talking to itself, which is a configuration error.  It should
not prevent other unrelated smtp clients which happen to be local from
talking to it.  For example, we have IMAP clients that want to talk
to the local smtp server so that the smarter server can figure out
how to deliver the mail.

Steve Hubert
Networks and Distributed Computing, Univ. of Wash., Seattle
hubert@cac.washington.edu