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On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Philip J. Koenig wrote:

> > What is this localhost thing, I've scanned through this discussion but
> > couldn't find a complete description of the problem
> >
> > From what I can work out your saying that Message-ID's ending in localhost
> > are rejected.
> >
> > But a quick grep of my freebsd-questions archive (approx 4 months):
> >
> >   grep -i -c 'message-id.*localhost>$' freebsd
> >   93 (matches)
> >
> >   grep -i -c 'message-id.*localdomain>$' freebsd
> >   112 (matches)

> That's interesting.  The only thing I changed to circumvent the
> filtering was something which changed the format of the Message-ID
> string from:
>
> Message-ID: <ABCDEFGH.12345.ABCDEFG@localhost>
>
> to
>
> Message-ID: <1234567890.ABCDEF@[mta hostname]@[originating hostname]>
>
>
> I have no idea how long hub.freebsd.org has filtered on that string.
> Noone has been forthcoming with details and I haven't been posting to
> the lists consistently enough to be a good judge.
>
> Certainly your statistics would imply a significant amount of
> messages would be blocked by that measure.  What was the date of the
> latest match?

3rd March 2002 - localhost
4th April 2002 - localhost.localdomain

> One other thing: will that dot after "message-id" only find text
> which has a dot in that position?  Because that isn't what the
> Message-ID header looks like. (see above)

No, it fine, ".*" is a wildcard. (. = match any character, * = match any
number of times)

Jason









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