Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!princeton!jvnc.net!aggarwal From: aggarwal@jvnc.net (Vikas Aggarwal) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: List of separators in sendmail Message-ID: <1991Apr26.045337.10580@jvnc.net> Date: 26 Apr 91 04:53:37 GMT Expires: May 10, 1991 Reply-To: vikas@r2d2.jvnc.net (Vikas Aggarwal) Organization: JvNCnet, Princeton University Lines: 40 Originator: aggarwal@r2d2.jvnc.net Nntp-Posting-Host: r2d2.jvnc.net I am running the latest version of sendmail from Berkeley on a couple of Suns. I need to configure my sendmail to start accepting mail for user@foo.com, as well as users@another.foo2 and so on. The problem I have is that I cannot define a *class* of domains to match- since the '.' exists in the list of separators, the address 'foo.com' resolves into two (three) tokens -"foo" and "com". When asked to match any of the domains (names) in the class X (using $=X), no match is found because the mailer tries to match the split up tokens against the full names. foo against foo.com, another.foo2 com against - do - (For those interested, they can see STAB at work by running sendmail in test mode using '-d36.5'). My question is this - "Can I safely remove the '.' from the list of separators in the config file (Do.:%@!^=/[]) ??" Without the '.', the token matching works just the way I want it to. I just want some input before I screw up a lot of mail (my host is used as a pretty large gateway so I have to be careful). 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. I hope this has not been discussed before. I am new to this group. Direct replies would be appreciated. -vikas vikas@jvnc.net (609) 258-2403 Network Engineering -2400 JvNCnet, Princeton, NJ -----------------------------------------------------------------------------