Hostname

[Julian Field]

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My addition just now supercedes this, and enables you to use any shell
environment variable anywhere in any definition. But many thanks to Tony
for providing this in the mean time :-)

Derek Winkler wrote:

>From CustomConfig.pm
>
>###########################################################################
>#
># Handy little feature to let you use the same MailScanner.conf file on
># lots of different hosts, where the only difference is the hostname.
># Just uncomment the "use Sys::Hostname" line and then set
>#   Hostname = &Hostname
># in your MailScanner.conf to use this.
>#
># Many thanks to Tony Finch for this.
>#
>###########################################################################
>
>Works in reports as well.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On Behalf
>Of Jason Huddleston
>Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 2:43 PM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Hostname
>
>
>I am trying to change the Hostname variable to include the server name with
>out hard coding the name in the string.  I have tried "Hostname = the
>%org-name% (%HOSTNAME%) MailScanner" and "Hostname = the %org-name%
>($HOSTNAME) MailScanner" with no luck. Is their a variable that I am
>overlooking that will pick up the server name????
>
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