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

[Richard Geoffrion]

"John Oberkrom" wrote:
> 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


>
> 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
>
>

Sorry,  example.org is the ONLY local domain.  example.com and example.net
our OTHER people's email servers.   Still, for some reason, this particular
smtp server (example.org) will accept mail for one  user.name@  recipient
yet reject it for another  user2.name@ recipient of another domain.

Strange.

This issue has been experienced on Netscape for Mac  AND OE 6.x for Windows.
The client is configured for IMAP access.....though I don't see where that
comes into play for the SMTP session.

/dev/rtcg