Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!nih-csl!lhc!ncifcrf!haven!udel!wuarchive!emory!gatech!mcnc!decwrl!ucbvax!TRIUMPH-ADLER.DE!hans From: hans@TRIUMPH-ADLER.DE ("Hans v. Kleist-Retzow") Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: Mail munging Message-ID: Date: 26 Oct 90 07:17:42 GMT References: Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 21 Excerpts from dringend: 25-Oct-90 Mail munging Bill Janssen@parc.xerox. (623) > Folks, > I have a problem with the way that messages re-writes addresses. If I > specify an address as "janssen.parc", it is re-written (assuming it's > not an alias or bulletin board) as "janssen.parc@holmes.parc.xerox.com". I also had the problems with the rewriting of mail addresses. I identified that the mail address is rewritten to the first entry for the host in the /etc/hosts. I changed the sequence of the aliases in /etc/hosts and have no problems. Hans ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans von Kleist-Retzow, TA Triumph-Adler AG, Olivetti Office Research Abt. EF21, Fuerther Str. 212, D-8500 Nuernberg 80, West-Germany Tel: +49 911 322 6355 E-Mail: hans@triumph-adler.de