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Re: Masquerading dupe suppresion loses on FQ and non-FQ together

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Mon Feb 5 15:15:49 1996

Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 15:14:01 -0500
To: Eric Allman <eric@sendmail.org>
Cc: sendmail-bugs@sendmail.org, netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[1241] in NetBSD-Development" aka
             <199602051936.LAA04894@knecht.Oxford.Reference.COM>
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>

> The difference between your two addresses were that one had a dot on
> the end of "mit.edu.", one didn't.

Sigh; I thought I had checked for that (too many mit.edu's in the
debugging output, I guess); that seems to fix things, thanks.

> This stuff can probably be improved, but these days I don't have much
> time to work on anything that isn't pretty serious.  I don't think
> this counts.

Quite. Perhaps text of the form:

*** cf/README      Sun Dec  3 10:36:28 1995
--- cf/README      Mon Feb  5 15:07:48 1996
***************
*** 936,941 ****
--- 936,945 ----
  need to unset all the other relays -- or better yet, find or build a
  minimal config file that does this.
  
+ For duplicate suppression to work properly, the hostname
+ is best specified with a terminal dot:
+ 
+       define(`MAIL_HUB', host.domain.)
  
  +-------------------------------+
  | NON-SMTP BASED CONFIGURATIONS |

would be helpful.

--jhawk

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