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- From: bruce@blilly.uucp (Bruce Lilly)
- Subject: Re: what to do with <@a,@b,@c:u@h>
- References: <C1A97M.3Jx@viper.cs.unm.edu>
- Organization: Bruce Lilly
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 06:37:02 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.063702.26709@blilly.uucp>
- Reply-To: lilb@sony.compuserve.com (Bruce Lilly)
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- In article <C1A97M.3Jx@viper.cs.unm.edu>,
- posted to comp.mail.sendmail,
- mcclure@viper.cs.unm.edu (Brent McClure) wrote:
- >We are re-working our sendmail configuration, and our mail relay
- >host currently attempts to route addresses of the form:
- >
- ><@a,@b,@c:u@h>
- >
- >to "a", however from what I've been reading from several places
- >it sounds like many sites are simply throwing away the source-route and
- >resolving straight to "u@h". Is this the recommended practice
- >now and/or is there any harm in this?
-
- RFC1123 section 5.2.6 permits either. See also section 5.2.19.
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