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From: Sm@bhpese.oz.au (Scott Merrilees)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: local adress problem
Message-ID: <1990Jul16.053845.22069@bhpese.oz.au>
Date: 16 Jul 90 05:38:45 GMT
References: <1990Jul10.000213.4942@cs.umn.edu> <2699CB8F.A35@tct.uucp> <7@happym.wa.com>
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irv@happym.wa.com (Irving Wolfe) writes:
>How about sharing these reasons with the rest of us who haven't yet figured 
>out why we should be doing this? 

I use elm, and I like this feature.  This makes it much easier in a
networked situation to trace breakages, sources and destinations.
I have also configured my mail transfer agent (or MTA) aka sendmail, to
rewrite all addresses so the host name part of the address is always
present, and is a fully qualified domain name, thus making message routing
much simpler and surer.  Mail messages are hard enough to get to
work in the diverse network we are all connected to, so as much infomation
as possible should be provided to the MTAs to assist them, and their
maintainers.

Sm
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Scott Merrilees, BHP Information Technology, Newcastle, Australia
Internet: Sm@bhpese.oz.au                    Phone: +61 49 402132