Re: HOW does Sendmail determine Local domainname : SOLVED

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From: Lars Tunkrans
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 14:39

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I had a problem with sendmail being confused about its hosts domainname.
sometimes sendmail thougt it was "ki.icl.se" and sometimes it thought it
was "icl.se".

  The problem was the way that sendmail reads the domainname external to 
sendmail.cf . The one returned by domainname(1M). Obviously the SUN derived
sendmail's  reads the external domainname with sysinfo(2) [ SI_SRPC_DOMAIN ]
and then trunkates everything to the left of the first dot in the domainname.
The resulting string is used as domainname.

  This was then fixed by adding a dot before the domainname so that sysinfo(2)
then returned ".ki.icl.se" which prevented sendmail from removing "ki".


Thanks Lars.
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From: ltu@ki.icl.se (Lars Tunkrans)
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Subject: Re: HOW does Sendmail determine Local domainname : SOLVED
Summary: domainname and Sendmail
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Date: 8 Jan 93 14:39:51 GMT
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