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From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: $=m class
Message-ID: <1990Sep28.150313.24840@smsc.sony.com>
Date: 28 Sep 90 15:03:13 GMT
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In article <1990Sep27.165120.8941@mp.cs.niu.edu>, rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
|> 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.

It's actually easier than that.  I just changed ruleset 6 to use $w
instead of $=w.

I posted the change to the net and sent it to Sun, and they informed me
that this was all better in 4.1.

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