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From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Theoretical address questions
Message-ID: <2716@litchi.bbn.com>
Date: 29 Jun 90 15:05:31 GMT
References: <73126@cc.utah.edu>
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In <73126@cc.utah.edu> NAHAJ@cc.utah.edu (John Halleck) writes:
>1.  The most common address formats have the property that (in the absence of
>    nesting two or more formats) the "next" host is on the opposite end of the
>    address from the user name.
That's an interesting observation.  I've never heard that explicitly
expressed before.  Neat!

>    @host:stuff
>    @host,@host,...@host:stuff
Ack, source routes.  Ignore them.

>    site!stuff
UUCP

>    stuff@site
The real thing.

>    stuff%site
Hmm, this is a local addres of some kind, to be interpreted on the local
host.

>    site::stuff
Looks like DECNET.

>    name at site
Outdated format -- do not bother to support it.  Odds are pretty good that
your sendmail can't really handle it anyway.

>    site:user
Berknet.  Ignore it.

>    site^user
Real old (v6? berknet? uucp/csh?).  Ignore it.
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