On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Rama Roberts wrote:
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> I've installed v1.94.4 on Solaris v2.6, using Perl v5.003.
> Everything seems to have installed fine.
> I'm trying to create my first mailing list, which I believe I've successfully
> done. As a test, I tried sending a 'help' command to the list-request alias.
> The result is appended below.
> The problem seems to be that Majordomo doesn't like abbreviated email addresses.
> For example, on the local net here, mail from user Foo on host Gads would
> appear to come from user "foo@gads"; while outside the local net, it would
> appear as "foo@gads.eng.sun.com"- which is what Majordomo wants. (I think)
>
> If I use a fully qualified address, the command goes thru fine, so the
> install is probably okay. (this isn't a workable solution though- I can't get
> everyone at Sun to change their addresses! ;)
No one likes abbreviated addresses. Either they should just contain the
mailbox part (and never leave the originating host) or they should be full
qualified. I suggest that you teach your MTA to make them fully
qualified. If you use sendmail you might be able to use "masquerade
domain" for that.
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Mats Dufberg Mats.Dufberg@abc.se
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