[Mimedefang] Starting all over to kill invalid users

Adam Lanier adam at krusty.madoff.com
Fri Jul 7 11:28:31 EDT 2006


On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 10:52 -0400, Steve Campbell wrote:
> They are in /etc/hosts. Sendmail does not use /etc/hosts normally, I 
> believe, and that is why an address in sendmail DBs need the square brackets 
> around IPs, etc.
> 
> Steve

Sendmail uses whatever address resolution mechanisms you have setup on
the host (nsswitch.conf).  The [ad.dr.es.s] idiom tells sendmail not to
do MX resolution on the host in brackets.
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