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

[Chris J Albertson]

I have never seen a problem with dots before the @ before.
I would believe that the problem is not sendmail, but the software running
the SMTP program on the other end. Maybe jane.doe is not set of as an
alias, I don't know. I'd really start looking at the recipient machine for
the reasons why it got rejected. (Log files, returned messages, etc.)

Good luck,

Chris

Richard Geoffrion said:
>
> "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
>
>
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