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From: krowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: mailing address info
Message-ID: <9010301450.AA23624@richter.mit.edu>
Date: 30 Oct 90 14:50:01 GMT
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I'm seeing a lot of messages to the mailing list that are being routed via
various HP corporate machines *without* fully qualified host names. (eg.
"news%caen%sdd.hp.com.uucp@ucsd.edu" is one of the latest). In many cases,
it is impossible to reply to the author of the message, as the HP machine
through which the message was routed does *not* know the unqualified host
name (in this example, the mailer daemon on sdd.hp.com has complained that
"caen" is an unknown host).

If you are at a site which must forward your outgoing mail via another machine
(or machines!), please try sending yourself a test message to check if the
return address is getting fully qualified hostnames put in it. If not, please
bug your system admin about fixing your sendmail.cf file and/or adding the
short (ie. not fully qualified) versions of your hostnames into their local
routing tables.

Thanks,
Dave Krowitz

( I *think* my messages are now going out with full names ... )