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msir@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Mark Sirota) writes:
   the other half think I'm
   brain-damaged for stripping local hostnames in the first place.

Not braindamaged.  Causing yourself excess pain, perhaps.

   So, my inclination is to put the local hostname on *all* local addresses,
   even those that are completely local.  For instance, if I mail joeuser on
   my-machine, the From: header will be "From: msir@my-machine", and the To:
   header will be "To: joeuser@my-machine".

I would amend that (or possibly simply clarify what you meant) by
saying that you should include not just a hostname, but a full domain
spec, name@machine.cc.rochester.edu.

   I ask the net: Is this true?  Do "most Internet sites use RFC822 as their
   *internal* mail representation also"?

I do here.  A rising number of other sites around this university also
use my sendmail.cf as a base.  I fully qualify anything and everything
as soon as possible.  It reduces the number of headaches to be dealt
with later - I never have to worry about full qualification as I leave
my own domain, because it's already done, in S3.

--Karl