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In article <PATRICK.93Jan21211802@delphi.Stanford.EDU>,
 posted to comp.mail.mh,comp.mail.sendmail,
 patrick@casbs.Stanford.EDU (Patrick Goebel) wrote:
>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.

You're probably confused. A '.' is perfectly legal in the
local-part of an addr-spec, but if a '.' appears in the phrase
part of a phrase route-addr, the phrase must be quoted, as in:

"John Q. Public" <jqp@nowhere.gov>

See RFC 822 for details.


Note that in most cases[*], an alias entry must resolve to a local
user, so you'll want to have an alias entry like:

firstname.lastname : logname

i.e., no '@'.

*	It is possible in IDA versions of sendmail to access the
aliases database as database '@', and non-local aliases could be
read in that way.
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	Bruce Lilly		...uupsi!monymsys!sonyd1!blilly!bruce