--On 15 February 2009 14:50:00 +0800 W B Hacker <[email protected]> wrote:
> > AFAIK the crux of it is that the Exim variable '$domain' actually > matches <domain>.<tld>, and parses for that, ignoring any and all > prefixes (unless otherwise directed - for which Exim DOES already have > tools). > > I haven't looked at the code, but the action appears to be to take the > two fields from the 'rightmost' end of the string (only). That's extremely unlikely given that the bulk of the development was done at cam.ac.uk, where .ac.uk is not specific to the institution. Indeed, for most .uk domains, you need three levels of domain to find the institution - eg "apple.co.uk" (an illustrators agents unrelated to the music publishers), "sussex.ac.uk" (the university of Sussex), lewes.gov.uk (my district council), "oxfam.org.uk" (a charity). There are very few exceptions, such as "bl.uk" (the British Library), and "parliament.uk". Here's a potentially useful resource: <https://wiki.mozilla.org/TLD_List> -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex x3148 -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
