Question about relay-domains file

I placed several addresses in the /etc/mail/relay-domains file. All
work except 1. The address that does not work is in the form of
123ABC.com. All the ones that work do not begin with numeric
characters. So, I am thinking there is a trick needed to get this
address to work correctly. Can someone please show me how this trick
is done?

-Many thanks

Re: Question about relay-domains file

In article <1193229684.070192.199000@q5g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
rsine wrote:

> I placed several addresses in the /etc/mail/relay-domains file. All
> work except 1. The address that does not work is in the form of
> 123ABC.com. All the ones that work do not begin with numeric
> characters. So, I am thinking there is a trick needed to get this
> address to work correctly. Can someone please show me how this trick
> is done?
>
> -Many thanks

comp.mail.sendmail would be a better place to ask this. It has nothing
to do with the shell.

In the early days of the Internet, domains were not allowed to begin
with digits, but that was eventualy relaxed (I think 3com.com was the
biggie that wanted this). Maybe sendmail's parser of the relay-domains
file was never updated.

Also, does it work if you change it to 123abc.com? Maybe the problem is
that it's not doing case-insensitive comparison.

--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***
*** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group ***

Re: Question about relay-domains file

On Oct 24, 10:57 am, Barry Margolin wrote:
> In article <1193229684.070192.199...@q5g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
>
> rsine wrote:
> > I placed several addresses in the /etc/mail/relay-domains file. All
> > work except 1. The address that does not work is in the form of
> > 123ABC.com. All the ones that work do not begin with numeric
> > characters. So, I am thinking there is a trick needed to get this
> > address to work correctly. Can someone please show me how this trick
> > is done?
>
> > -Many thanks
>
> comp.mail.sendmail would be a better place to ask this. It has nothing
> to do with the shell.
>
> In the early days of the Internet, domains were not allowed to begin
> with digits, but that was eventualy relaxed (I think 3com.com was the
> biggie that wanted this). Maybe sendmail's parser of the relay-domains
> file was never updated.
>
> Also, does it work if you change it to 123abc.com? Maybe the problem is
> that it's not doing case-insensitive comparison.
>
> --
> Barry Margolin, bar...@alum.mit.edu
> Arlington, MA
> *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***
> *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group ***

Barry,

Thanks for the reply. Changing cases does not seem to make any
difference. I will move my posting to the suggested newsgroup.