sendmail local-host-names questions

2012-08-29 Thread Gary Aitken
Sorry if this is a bit off topic; couldn't find an answer on the net anywhere and sendmail.org seems to be non-functional unless you're a commercial customer; or at least that's the way it looks to me, as it's redirected to sendmail.com and their Ask the Experts page has no way to ask anybody

Re: sendmail local-host-names questions

2012-08-29 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Gary Aitken wrote on Wed 29.Aug'12 at 1:45:19 -0600 ] Also... I can't find anything about how to put a comment in the local-host-names file. I took a guess and used # as in the .mc file, and it doesn't seem to cause errors; but neither does ';' or '%' so I'm guessing the lines are

Re: sendmail local-host-names questions

2012-08-29 Thread Robert Bonomi
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 01:45:19 -0600 From: Gary Aitken free...@dreamchaser.org Subject: sendmail local-host-names questions Also... I can't find anything about how to put a comment in the local-host-names file. I took a guess and used # as in the .mc file, and it doesn't seem

Re: sendmail local-host-names questions

2012-08-29 Thread doug
On Wed, 29 Aug 2012, Gary Aitken wrote: Can anyone explain what's going on or point me to a better place to ask? It's now fixed but I'd like to understand why sendmail doesn't like a domain specified with a trailing dot, since I thought that was how one specified a fully qualified domain