System variables in MailScanner.conf

[Julian Field]

If using the wrong one gives you an empty string (it should do) then  
what's wrong with

Hostname = ${HOSTNAME}${HOST}

and one of them will always fire.

On 12 Jul 2005, at 22:45, James Gray wrote:

> We are currently in the process of migrating our mail gateways to a  
> common
> operating system and configuration.  Currently they are split  
> between CentOS
> and FreeBSD.  We found an interesting little "feature" during the  
> most recent
> upgrade to MS 4.43.8.
>
> The config file refers to "$HOSTNAME" which on our CentOS testing  
> box worked
> perfectly.  So we got around to pushing the config out to all the  
> production
> machines.  Problem - only the CentOS-based machines are reporting  
> their
> hostname, and the FreeBSD boxes aren't.  2 minutes of playing  
> revealed we
> needed "$HOST" on FreeBSD, and "$HOTNAME" on Linux.  Bah - back to  
> separate
> configs :(
>
> Just thought this little gem might help others.  As we're not going  
> to be
> keeping the FreeBSD boxes, I'm not particularly heart-broken.  They  
> are also
> fairly old (fBSD 4.6.1) which may have something to do with the  
> "$HOST" vs
> "$HOSTNAME" thing too.  Anyone else seen this?  If this is a fBSD  
> thing, it
> might be a handy exception to mention in the config file comments.
>
> Cheers,
>
> James
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