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Date:      Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:35:37 -0400 (EDT)
From:      doug <doug@fledge.watson.org>
To:        Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: sendmail local-host-names questions
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1208291632370.1797@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <503DC88F.6060806@dreamchaser.org>
References:  <503DC88F.6060806@dreamchaser.org>

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On Wed, 29 Aug 2012, Gary Aitken wrote:

> Can anyone explain what's going on or point me to a better place to ask?
> It's now fixed but I'd like to understand why sendmail doesn't like a domain
> specified with a trailing dot, since I thought that was how one specified a
> fully qualified domain name.

The definitive source is /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf/README

> 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 am not sure which table you are commenting but I think some of the tables like 
virtusertable do not allow comments at the end of the line. Lines starting with 
a '#' are fine in any table. Again the README is you source





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