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Subject: Re: SMTP syntax error
From: Mats Dufberg <Mats . Dufberg @ abc . se>
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 22:55:03 +0100 (MET)
To: Michael Talbot-Wilson <mtw @ calypso . view . net . au>
Cc: Jim Savoy <savoy @ hg . uleth . ca>, MAJORDOMO-USERS @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981026052846.17772B-100000@calypso.view.net.au>

On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Michael Talbot-Wilson wrote:

> By sendmail's DNS lookup.  It is a correct FQDN.  Without a period
> it is unterminated and certain software (including your name server)
> might append the domain name to it, giving
> amber.online.uleth.ca.uleth.ca.  The period prevents that.  (The
> period is actually the name of the top-level domain.)


Yes, but if you look at the definition in RFC 821 there should be NO
trailing dot. It's not even optional. 



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Mats Dufberg                                  Mats.Dufberg@abc.se




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