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From: jimmy@pic.ucla.edu (Jim Gottlieb)
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Subject: Re: What do I do with my shiny new domain name?
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Date: 22 Apr 89 17:30:54 GMT
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In article <2666@decuac.DEC.COM> avolio@decuac.dec.com (Frederick M. Avolio) writes:
>twwells = twwells.com
>
>>Secondly, is it sufficient to just tell Internet sites to mail to twwells.com,
>>or is it necessary for them to do some fudging to make sure that the mail goes
>>to uunet first?
>
>The former is sufficient.  UUNET is saying that they will be your mail
>exchanger site.  Internet hosts will be able to send to
>user@twwells.com and the mail will get there going through
>UUNET.UU.NET without any other work or magic.

In a perfect world, yes, but please keep in mind that many internet
sites still do not use the name domain server, and even some of those
that do (like ours) do not have sendmail versions that understand MX
records.  So, unfortunately, you may still want to give an alternate
address of username%twwells.com@uunet.uu.net .  Someday this won't be
necessary.
Glenn Sueyoshi
gtsueyoshi@ucsd.edu   ucbvax!ucsd!keynes!glenn  gtsueyoshi@ucsd