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- From: eric@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Eric Allman)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh,comp.mail.sendmail
- Subject: Re: MH aliases
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 15:59:14 GMT
- Organization: UC Berkeley Mammoth Project
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- Sender: eric@mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Eric Allman)
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- In article <PATRICK.93Jan21211802@delphi.Stanford.EDU>, patrick@casbs.Stanford.EDU (Patrick Goebel) writes:
- |> On a related note, I often see addresses of the form
- |>
- |> firstname.lastname@host.domain
- |>
- |> If I try to make such an alias in our /etc/aliases file (SunOS 4.1.1
- |> using sendmail), I run into all sorts of trouble. If I'm not
- |> mistaken, having a "." before the "@" violates one of the format
- |> rules.
-
- No, there is nothing in the RFCs that says this is incorrect (unless it
- is in the phrase part of a ``Full Name <address@domain>'' syntax address,
- which was the problem with the ``Mr. Foo Bar <foobar@some.where>'' that
- appeared a few days ago).
-
- It is possible to configure sendmail to use dots in the local-part (that
- is, the left hand side of the @) in different ways, but most sites do not
- do this. I suggest using ``sendmail -bt'' to track down what it is
- really doing with these names.
-
- Old Berkeley sendmail.cf files would cause the problem you are having
- because of the (now long dead, at least at Berkeley) BerkNet syntax.
- This was originally ``host:user'', but colons ARE illegal in local-parts,
- so we had sendmail map dot to colon so that ``host.user'' would become
- ``host:user''. Newer config files do not do this.
-
- eric
-