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local host aliases, MX sendmail

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From: Guy Middleton
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1988 18:17
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I want to be able to tell if mail is being sent to the local machine (a
reasonable goal).  In an MX sendmail, the 'w' class no longer contains local
aliases, so these would have to be defined by hand.  We don't want to do
this, because we currently use the same .cf file on all our machines, and
would like to keep it that way.  I could have something like "Fwhostaliases"
in the config to read in the local aliases.  This is a better solution, but I
really would like to avoid local configuration of any kind.

I think the best way is to just go ahead and canonicalise the address
(probably in ruleset zero), so we don't worry about not matching the names.
We're using IDA sendmail, so a failed match is not a problem.  Is there any
reason not to do it this way?

 -Guy Middleton, University of Waterloo Institute for Computer Research
						gamiddleton@math.waterloo.edu
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From: gamiddleton@watmath.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton)
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Subject: local host aliases, MX sendmail
Message-ID: <21458@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 13 Oct 88 18:17:21 GMT
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Organization: University of Waterloo [MFCF/ICR]
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