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From: gary@proa.sv.dg.com (Gary Bridgewater)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
Subject: Re: Domain level mail addressing
Message-ID: <1990Dec21.085628.19753@proa.sv.dg.com>
Date: 21 Dec 90 08:56:28 GMT
References: <1990Dec17.081050@acad3a.alaska.edu> <1990Dec20.153846.3716@cs.umn.edu>
Organization: Data General SDD, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <1990Dec20.153846.3716@cs.umn.edu> peiffer@cs.umn.edu (Tim Peiffer "The Net Guy") writes:
>R$*<@$=w>$*		$:$1<@LOCAL>$3

Well, sure. But what if class w doesn't contain the unqualified name of the host?
I just brought up the UIUC version of sendmail 5.65 and it only defines the FQDN.
Also, the Suns around here running the MX sendmail do the same thing. This was
very irritating and took a major kludge to work around.
-- 
Gary Bridgewater, Data General Corporation, Sunnyvale California
gary@sv.dg.com or {amdahl,aeras,amdcad}!dgcad!gary
C++ - it's the right thing to do.