Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ukma!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu!karl From: karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: UCB Mail tries to be too smart Message-ID: Date: 22 Feb 89 13:44:33 GMT References: <885@ur-cc.UUCP> <888@ur-cc.UUCP> <918@ur-cc.UUCP> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Organization: OSU Lines: 25 In-reply-to: msir@uhura.cc.rochester.edu's message of 21 Feb 89 19:34:24 GMT msir@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Mark Sirota) writes: the other half think I'm brain-damaged for stripping local hostnames in the first place. Not braindamaged. Causing yourself excess pain, perhaps. So, my inclination is to put the local hostname on *all* local addresses, even those that are completely local. For instance, if I mail joeuser on my-machine, the From: header will be "From: msir@my-machine", and the To: header will be "To: joeuser@my-machine". I would amend that (or possibly simply clarify what you meant) by saying that you should include not just a hostname, but a full domain spec, name@machine.cc.rochester.edu. I ask the net: Is this true? Do "most Internet sites use RFC822 as their *internal* mail representation also"? I do here. A rising number of other sites around this university also use my sendmail.cf as a base. I fully qualify anything and everything as soon as possible. It reduces the number of headaches to be dealt with later - I never have to worry about full qualification as I leave my own domain, because it's already done, in S3. --Karl