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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: List of separators in sendmail
Message-ID: <1991Apr26.132742.18354@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 26 Apr 91 13:27:42 GMT
References: <1991Apr26.045337.10580@jvnc.net>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
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In article <1991Apr26.045337.10580@jvnc.net> vikas@r2d2.jvnc.net (Vikas Aggarwal) writes:
>I am running the latest version of sendmail from Berkeley on a couple of
>Suns.

 Both the IDA versions of sendmail and your Sun supplied 'sendmail' support
multi-token class matches.

>My question is  this  -  "Can   I safely remove   the '.' from  the  list of
>separators in the config file (Do.:%@!^=/[]) ??"

 If you do this you lose all ability to recognize address such as node.BITNET
or node.UUCP and treat them differently from mail with Internet addresses.  You
lose a great deal of flexibility.

>P.S. I remember seeing  something on the  net about the  Ida sendmail mailer
>where  they had  mentioned  that  the '.' in   the list of  separators was a
>carryover from teh old Berknet days and should be removed.

 This was a comment about addresses of the form x.y without any '@' in it
at all.  It had nothing to do with the '.' within domain specifications.


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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
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