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From: phil@inetg1.Arco.Com (Phil Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,alt.sys.sun
Subject: Parsing subdomains
Keywords: SUNOS 4.1 (and others)
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Date: 3 Jan 91 00:58:15 GMT
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Organization: Arco Oil & Gas Company
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We have recently  set up several name servers and have divided the company
up into subdomains.  The problem is that sendmail is set up to parse only
three elements of a domain name.  We now have four elements in our internal
domain names.  Here is an example of what happens.

Our Domain is Arco.COM

An internal domain could be A

Mail phil@A.Arco.COM

This will work as long as the nameserver A knows how to forward mail to me.
But this one:

Mail phil@machine.A.Arco.COM

produces:
No machine Machine.A in domain A.Arco.COM.

In vanilla SUNOS 4.1 sendmail.cf, it looks like rule 6 is my problem, but
I'm danged if I can figger it out.

Thanks!
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