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From: graham@hparc0.HP.COM (Graham Eddy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: NOT routing thru DOMAIN.ORG?
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Date: 27 Sep 90 16:25:56 GMT
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the easiest way i know of to get aliases from /etc/hosts included
in the systems understood by sendmail is to define a new class S
which grabs all names from specified file as SMTP-connectable.
next approach would be to make class S a program which grabs the
data from /etc/hosts itself.  lastly, and this is can-of-worms
stuff, rewrite the parsing to recognise local hosts.  all you need
for the latter is a degree in sendmail and years of experience..

-graham "representing noone's opinion but his own"