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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: $=m class
Message-ID: <1990Sep27.165120.8941@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 27 Sep 90 16:51:20 GMT
References: <9629@ur-cc.UUCP> <1990Sep26.220824.19155@mp.cs.niu.edu> <1990Sep27.154352.14639@smsc.sony.com>
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In article <1990Sep27.154352.14639@smsc.sony.com> dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott) writes:
>
>Actually, sendmail sets both $w and $=w.  This allows you to add
>other mail domains that you are known by to the w class.
>
>In the past, this has caused numerous problems with people who set
>their YP domain to something other than their mail domain.  What

  This is easily solved.  Just pick a different, currently unused
letter of the alphabet such as D.  Then change all occurences of
$w to $D, all occurrences of $=w to $=D, all occurences of $~w to $~D.

Make sure to include the correct DD and CD definitions.  Then it
doesn't matter what sendmail predefines $w as.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
  DeKalb, IL 60115.                                  +1-815-753-6940