From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 29 20:35:46 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5EAD106564A for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 20:35:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doug@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [65.122.17.41]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71AF18FC0C for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 20:35:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fledge.watson.org (localhost.watson.org [127.0.0.1]) by fledge.watson.org (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q7TKZbnP063691; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:35:37 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from doug@fledge.watson.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by fledge.watson.org (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) with ESMTP id q7TKZbch063684; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:35:37 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from doug@fledge.watson.org) Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:35:37 -0400 (EDT) From: doug To: Gary Aitken In-Reply-To: <503DC88F.6060806@dreamchaser.org> Message-ID: References: <503DC88F.6060806@dreamchaser.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.3 (fledge.watson.org [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:35:37 -0400 (EDT) Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: sendmail local-host-names questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: doug@safeport.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 20:35:46 -0000 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