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From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>
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Subject: Re: sendmail local-host-names questions
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> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 01:45:19 -0600
> From: Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org>
> Subject: sendmail local-host-names questions
>
>
> Also...  I can't find anything about how to put a comment in the 
> local-host-names file.  I took a guess and used # as in the .mc file, and 
> it doesn't seem to cause errors; but neither does ';' or '%' so I'm 
> guessing the lines are just being skipped because they don't parse 
> properly. I'd like to know whether comments are allowed or not; and if 
> so, what the proper syntax is.

I don't know, off-hand, where it's documented, but '#' is what you want to use.