On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, Stan Ryckman wrote:
> [stuff in terms of rewriting jane@ix4.netcom.com to jane@netcom.com]
WAIT! DON'T DO THAT!!
You CAN rewrite jane@ix4.ix.netcom.com TO jane@ix.netcom.com, BUT
DO NOT rewrite any ix.netcom user to simply netcom.com!!
ix.netcom.com is their PPP service. netcom.com is their SHELL user
system. They are NOT THE SAME THING! It *is* possible to have a
user@netcom AND a user@ix.netcom (i.e., same user name), yet they are not
only separate accounts, they could well be different people!
> >Right. But it shouldn't matter what sort of random cruft Pegasus (or
> >any other client mailer) sticks in the From: line; when the Netcom
> >mail relay processes it, it should rewrite the From: line to a
> >canonical form. That's trivial, and most ISPs seem to do that.
>
> They need to do it *carefully*.
Just so.
You should NEVER, btw, see any address like user@ix12.netcom.com -- that
would be a WAY broken address; you might see it as user@ix12.ix.netcom..com
(and I have). It's safe, and even preferrable, to drop the ix12, but NOT
the .ix. You MIGHT see a user@netcom12.netcom.com (and it's safe to drop
the netcom12), but most shell users are savvy enough to know not to do
that.
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