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Re: Use Domain In Hostname Or Not?

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From: Phil Karlton
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 1990 21:34
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In article <9003091812.AA17719@somewhere.ucsb.edu> aks@HUB.UCSB.EDU (Alan Stebbens , ks@hub.ucsb.EDU) writes:
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>Note: This doesn't work if the MH [BERK] option has been enabled,
>which disables RFC822 address parsing.  I guess the [BERK] option
>assumes that sendmail does all of the address parsing for you,
>since their sendmail.cf file seems to be a "standard" for
>comparison.

Is anybody working on fixing the [BERK] option or adding a variant that
would allow sendmail to do all of the parsing of messages as they pass
machine boundaries and still allow the user to do RFC822 parsing of
messages to make presentation a little more user friendly?

PK
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Phil Karlton                            karlton@sgi.com
Silicon Graphics Computer Systems       415-335-1557
2011 N. Shoreline Blvd.
Mountain View, CA 94039
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