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Re: The need for specifying the OFFICIAL domain name in a header

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From: Mike O'Connor
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 16:24
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In article <1992Apr11.211356.1@ptavv.llnl.gov> oberman@ptavv.llnl.gov writes:

:with what the mailer accepts from the user. Any reasonable mailer should make a
:reasonable attempt to use aliases and local names by converting them into
:FQDNs. I've never seen one which wouldn't, although I know of one System V

Just for the record, VMS MAIL (with most TCP/IP implementations)
experiences this problem.  You Cc: a local/user alias/symbol/logical
and that never gets FQDNized.  It's quite annoying.

						...Mike

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From: moconnor@pms704.pms.ford.com (Mike O'Connor)
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Subject: Re: The need for specifying the OFFICIAL domain name in a header
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Date: 12 Apr 92 16:24:26 GMT
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