On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Randy Bush wrote:
> > o Mail sent to "randy" on roam.psg.com should be delivered to
> > randy@??? (i.e. locally) and not to randy@???.
>
> yes. and on the host psg.com, mail should be delivered to the local randy
> on that host.
That one is tricky if "randy" is to be different from "randy@???".
The only way to handle that would be, on the host psg.com, to set
qualify_recipient = the.host.psg.com
and add "the.host.psg.com" to your local_domains setting. But this would
actually be a disaster for any messages that also were sent off the
host, because addresses containing "randy@???" would be
meaningless to others.
> this seems to pretty much do it. a bit annoying that it produces
> To: randy@???
You want it just to be
To: randy
? An extract from RFC 822:
destination = "To" ":" 1#address ; Primary
address = mailbox ; one addressee
/ group ; named list
mailbox = addr-spec ; simple address
/ phrase route-addr ; name & addr-spec
addr-spec = local-part "@" domain ; global address
In other words, an address is required to contain a domain (if you
follow through the "route_addr" definition it is no different). One
reason is again the point about messages that are sent to multiple
recipients. If you mail
To: randy, ph10@???
That To: line as it stands is not particularly helpful to me when I get
my copy of the message.
For these reasons, Exim insists on working only with fully qualified
email addresses.
--
Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
