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List:       postfix-users
Subject:    Re: Format of ip address in /etc/postfix/access
From:       Kris Deugau <kdeugau () vianet ! ca>
Date:       2019-08-12 15:07:16
Message-ID: 2bb003bd-23d0-9f31-59e2-2833fce3109d () vianet ! ca
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Jan Ceuleers wrote:
> On 10/08/2019 23:22, Wietse Venema wrote:
>>                NOTE 1: The access map lookup key must be in canonical form:  DO
>>                NOT SPECIFY UNNECESSARY NULL CHARACTERS, and do not enclose net-
>>                work address information with "[]" characters.
>>
>> Emphasis added for clarity.

> To me a NULL character is the ASCII character which has all of its bits
> set to zero. Could I therefore suggest talking about 0 characters
> instead in this man page?

Think "semantically null".  There are other things that could be 
included in a "convenient for [x]" format for an IP address which do not 
change its meaning.

-kgd
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