Re: MH aliases

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From: Patrick Goebel
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 05:18

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On a related note, I often see addresses of the form

firstname.lastname@host.domain

If I try to make such an alias in our /etc/aliases file (SunOS 4.1.1
using sendmail), I run into all sorts of trouble.  If I'm not
mistaken, having a "." before the "@" violates one of the format
rules.

But then, how do these other sites get away with it?  In particular,
Sun Microsystems itself has all kinds of user addresses in this form!

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From: patrick@casbs.Stanford.EDU (Patrick Goebel)
Subject: Re: MH aliases
In-Reply-To: shankar@sgi.com's message of 21 Jan 93 00: 45:57 GMT
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