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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: local site in a domain
Message-ID: <1991Feb23.154024.29925@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 23 Feb 91 15:40:24 GMT
References: <_L=-F2#@b-tech.uucp> <R=J937D@xds13.ferranti.com> <WB?--?&@b-tech.uucp>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
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In article <WB?--?&@b-tech.uucp> zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) writes:
>When somebody sends mail to mysite!apple!user (intending this mail to 
>be delivered to apple.uucp) it ends up going to user@apple.mysite.com 
>(where it usually bounces).  

 If you send 'apple!user' to 'apple.uucp' then you should send
'mysite!apple!user' there also.  Otherwise your software is badly broken.

 If some other site sends mail to you addressed to either 'apple!user' or
to 'mysite!apple!user', but you can't get it to the correct destination, then
the sending site is badly broken.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
  DeKalb, IL 60115                                   +1-815-753-6940