Re: [exim] Feature Needed - Main_domain

Chris Edwards wrote:

>On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Chris Meadors wrote:
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>| Marc Perkel wrote:
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>| > You're making my point. This needs to be in Exim because it's far to complex
>| > to do with a Regex.
>|
>| I think you are missing the point. It is too complex to be done anywhere.
>| Regex are more powerful than a few lines of C thrown into the Exim codebase.
>| I can't even come up with a way to explain what a "main domain" is in English
>| that would satisfy every case. The only thing I can think of, is to visit the
>| authoritative registrar for each CCTLD and see what second level domains they
>| offer and build a complete list. Then repeat periodically because they do
>| change. Then that also leaves out uk.com which pretends it is a second level
>| domain and sells third levels to anyone who wants one. And the .name TLD is
>| just really screwed up.
>
>RegistrarBoundaries.pm (comes with SpamAssassin, used by the URIBL stuff)
>has the necessary logic + large list of TLDs.
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Well - there's the solution. And the spam assassin folks found it
useful. I wonder if some sort of a lookup would work?