BSD 4.2 Mail not RFC822-compliant?

Craig Leres leres at ace.ee.lbl.gov
Wed Dec 14 07:44:42 AEST 1988


(Followups to ... uh ... gee, so many groups to choose from ... uh ...
comp.mail.headers, yeah, that's the ticket.)

Arnold D. Robbins writes:
> For reasons I was not able to pin down, both the To: and the From:
> address need to be either fully domain'ed or non-domain'ed ("fritz")
> but having mixtures produces this problem.

If the recipient is non-local, then all addresses in the message
(including the sender) must be domainized. Otherwise, the recipient
might have a difficult time replying to the message.

		Craig



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