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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Local Configuration Error
Message-ID: <1990Sep27.040959.27496@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 27 Sep 90 04:09:59 GMT
References: <2238@charon.cwi.nl> <1990Sep25.180831.26713@mp.cs.niu.edu> <8187@milton.u.washington.edu>
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In article <8187@milton.u.washington.edu> hubert@milton.u.washington.edu (Steve Hubert) writes:
>>                    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

 Strange.  I am using MH as a mail program, and it has no problem.  It
just calls itself 'localhost' and communicates on the loopback net.  This
causes no difficulty unless my fully qualified domain name is also
local host.

 A local SMTP client could always use a different value for its host name,
and pass the test alright.  The method doesn't seem flawed to me.
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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
  DeKalb, IL 60115.                                  +1-815-753-6940