krowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz) (10/30/90)
I'm seeing a lot of messages to the mailing list that are being routed via various HP corporate machines *without* fully qualified host names. (eg. "news%caen%sdd.hp.com.uucp@ucsd.edu" is one of the latest). In many cases, it is impossible to reply to the author of the message, as the HP machine through which the message was routed does *not* know the unqualified host name (in this example, the mailer daemon on sdd.hp.com has complained that "caen" is an unknown host). If you are at a site which must forward your outgoing mail via another machine (or machines!), please try sending yourself a test message to check if the return address is getting fully qualified hostnames put in it. If not, please bug your system admin about fixing your sendmail.cf file and/or adding the short (ie. not fully qualified) versions of your hostnames into their local routing tables. Thanks, Dave Krowitz ( I *think* my messages are now going out with full names ... )