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<TITLE>Hostname Qualification</TITLE>
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<A HREF="node1.html"><IMG WIDTH=65 HEIGHT=24 ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="contents" SRC="contents_motif.gif"></A> <BR>
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<B> Next:</B> <A HREF="node218.html">Sendmail+IDA</A>
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<B>Up:</B> <A HREF="node198.html">Getting smail Up and </A>
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<B> Previous:</B> <A HREF="node216.html">SMTP-based Transports</A>
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<H1><A NAME="SECTION00161100000">Hostname Qualification</A></H1>
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<A NAME="smailqualify"></A>
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Sometimes it is desirable to catch unqualified hostnames (i.e. those
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that don't have a domain name) specified in sender or recipient
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addresses, for example when gatewaying between two networks, where one
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requires fully qualified domain names. On an Internet-UUCP relay,
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unqualified hostnames should be mapped to the uucp domain by
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default. Other address modifications than these are questionable.
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The /usr/lib/smail/qualify file tells smail which domain names
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to tack onto which hostnames. Entries in the qualify file
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consists of a hostname beginning in column one, followed by domain name.
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Lines containing a hash sign as its first non-white character are
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considered comments. Entries are searched in the order they appear in.
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If no qualify file exists, no hostname qualification is performed
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at all.
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A special hostname of * matches any hostnames, thus enabling you
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to map all hosts not mentioned before into a default domain. It should
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be used only as the last entry.
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At the Virtual Brewery, all hosts have been set up to use fully
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qualified domain names in the sender's addresses. Unqualified recipient
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addresses are considered to be in the uucp domain, so only a
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single entry in the qualify file is needed.
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<PRE>
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# /usr/lib/smail/qualify, last changed Feb 12, 1994 by janet
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#
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* uucp
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<P><ADDRESS>
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<I>Andrew Anderson <BR>
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Thu Mar 7 23:22:06 EST 1996</I>
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