From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 12 8:59:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lark.capnet.state.tx.us (lark.capnet.state.tx.us [204.65.39.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 383F737BEFE for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 08:59:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Bryan.Bradsby@capnet.state.tx.us) Received: from localhost (bbradsby@localhost) by lark.capnet.state.tx.us (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e6CFxOn56522; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 10:59:24 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 10:59:23 -0500 (CDT) From: Bryan Bradsby To: James Daniels Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail question In-Reply-To: <20000712073043.19754.qmail@web5501.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > What is the purpose of the line > > CP. > > in sendmail.cf? it is not documented nor > are there any comments about it in sendmail.cf, > /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf/README > or > /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf/m4/proto.m4 > where it gets included without comment. Page 618 Bat book: "The class P holds a list of pseudo domains that will not be looked up using DNS. Unless you use a FEATURE, this class will only contain a dot. Various FEATURES will add appropriate pseudo domainst to it, such as UUCP and .REDIRECT." I guess you could add something here to prevent lookup of some bogus host domains that you use internally. Thanks for the interesting question. -bryan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message