🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <PATRICK.93Jan21211802@delphi.Stanford.EDU> patrick@casbs.Stanford.EDU (Patrick Goebel) writes:
>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.

As has been pointed out by others, it doesn't, but - you aren't by
chance putting the entire 'firstname.lastname@host.domain' in the LHS of
the alias file, are you? That will typically only work with IDA
sendmail, which takes special care to deal with such "non-local
aliases". For others, you just put 'firstname.lastname' in the alias
file, and make sure the .cf recognizes 'host.domain' as "local".

Then there's the issue of getting sender addresses to be generated in
the above form, of course, i.e. "reverse aliasing" - certainly doable
with Sun's stock sendmail, but takes a bit of tinkering...

--Per Hedeland
per@erix.ericsson.se  or
per%erix.ericsson.se@sunic.sunet.se  or
...uunet!erix.ericsson.se!per