map colons to dots everywhere..... ????

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From: Dan A. Dickey
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 1989 14:22

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Can anyone tell me why in the individual mailer Sender/Reciever
rules that it maps "colons to dots everywhere....."?
Is this some holdover from a while ago that is no longer needed?
Exactly what is it meant to handle?

It is causing us a slight problem internally, in that when our
Suns reply to Apollo mailing lists (specified by a name with a trailing
colon), the Suns map the trailing colon to a dot.

I presently have our Sun sendmail's configured with 5.61 cf files,
and am running sendmail 5.58 on all the suns (with named).
Dan A. Dickey    ddickey@gonzo.eta.com

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From: ddickey@gonzo.eta.com (Dan A. Dickey)
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Subject: map colons to dots everywhere.....   ????
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Date: 7 Apr 89 14:22:58 GMT
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