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- From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
- Subject: Re: sendmail problem
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.193835.15400@mp.cs.niu.edu>
- Organization: Northern Illinois University
- References: <1992Dec22.035507.758@nuscc.nus.sg>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:38:35 GMT
- Lines: 22
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- In article <1992Dec22.035507.758@nuscc.nus.sg> ccewch@nuscc.nus.sg (Wong Chee Heng) writes:
- >
- >I am encountering a very strange problem with sendmail. I am in a node called
- >nuscc.nus.sg., and I sent to a user called ccecst in a node called
- >solomon.technet.sg. using Pine/elm. When I use sendmail -v option from
- >command line the mail get through. The following shows the return
- >script that I got after I sent the message:
-
- Actually, you are in the node nuscc.nus.sg and your intended correspondent
- is in the node solomon.technet.sg . There is no trailing '.' on the
- end of domain names. Some software permits an extra '.', but RFC1123
- explicitely disallows the trailing '.' on email addresses.
-
- >While talking to solomon.technet.sg.:
- >>>> HELO solomon.technet.sg
- ><<< 553 Local configuration error, hostname not recognized as local
- >554 <ccecst@solomon.technet.sg.>... Service unavailable
-
- >Anyone knows what is going on?
-
- Your trailing '.' confused the mail software on solomon.
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