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Date:      Tue, 17 Jun 2003 15:25:04 -0400
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: getting ordb.org to stop spam with sendmail
Message-ID:  <3EEF6B10.4090708@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030617175904.GJ64929@dan.emsphone.com>
References:  <20030617065209.GA9407@skytrackercanada.com> <20030617141346.GG64929@dan.emsphone.com> <20030617161900.GC17961@skytrackercanada.com> <20030617175904.GJ64929@dan.emsphone.com>

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Dan Nelson wrote:
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> Hm.  I have just never seen sendmail open /etc/hosts on my system. 
> After ktracing it I see that it does.

I'm not sure that "sendmail predates DNS" would be quite the right way to put 
it.  Regardless, sendmail certainly predates the canonical usage of email 
addresses identifying the destination via Internet-based DNS records.  :-)

-Chuck




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