[NTLUG:Discuss] Sendmail and names with periods. (fwd)

[John Oberkrom]

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Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 10:35:10 -0500 (CDT)
From: John Oberkrom <linux at aoai.com>
To: discuss at ntlug.org
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Sendmail and names with periods.

Short answer: No

Longer answer: Make sure you have listed the domain in the
/etc/mail/local-host-names file. I noticed in your example below you have
one user in example.com domain while another user in the example.net
domain.

Hope this helps,
JO


On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Richard Geoffrion wrote:

> Is there a known issue with using a sendmail server to send mail to other
> internet users where the addressee's email name contains a 'dot'?
> 
> For some reason, emails sent from my bob at example.org account to
> john.doe at example.com work fine, while email to jane.doe at example.net seem to
> fail.
> 
> Is there a problem with periods?
> 
> /dev/rtcg
> 
> 
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