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- From: bruce@blilly.uucp (Bruce Lilly)
- Subject: Re: MH aliases
- References: <CKD.93Jan20161945@loiosh.eff.org> <1jkro5INN2e3@fido.asd.sgi.com> <PATRICK.93Jan21211802@delphi.Stanford.EDU>
- Organization: Bruce Lilly
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 16:49:11 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.164911.24948@blilly.uucp>
- Reply-To: lilb@sony.compuserve.com (Bruce Lilly)
- Lines: 33
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- In article <PATRICK.93Jan21211802@delphi.Stanford.EDU>,
- posted to comp.mail.mh,comp.mail.sendmail,
- patrick@casbs.Stanford.EDU (Patrick Goebel) wrote:
- >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.
-
- You're probably confused. A '.' is perfectly legal in the
- local-part of an addr-spec, but if a '.' appears in the phrase
- part of a phrase route-addr, the phrase must be quoted, as in:
-
- "John Q. Public" <jqp@nowhere.gov>
-
- See RFC 822 for details.
-
-
- Note that in most cases[*], an alias entry must resolve to a local
- user, so you'll want to have an alias entry like:
-
- firstname.lastname : logname
-
- i.e., no '@'.
-
- * It is possible in IDA versions of sendmail to access the
- aliases database as database '@', and non-local aliases could be
- read in that way.
- --
- Bruce Lilly ...uupsi!monymsys!sonyd1!blilly!bruce
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