grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu (Dirk Grunwald) (06/29/90)
>>>>> On 24 Jun 90 17:32:48 GMT, paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Paul Pomes - UofIllinois CSO) said: PP> grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu (Dirk Grunwald) writes: >I'm using 5.64 w/IDA 1.3.1 from uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (thanks paul pomes!) > >right now all my mail addresses get expanded, e.g. mailing to ``woof,baz'' >gets expanded to ``woof@anchor.Colorado.EDU, baz@eclipse.Colorado.EDU''. > >I'd like them to be just ``woof,baz'' or ``woof@anchor, baz@eclips,'' >contingent on the ending domain name i.e. if the domain name matches >mine, assume that it can get there unqualified or by qualification via >just a hostname (better choice, actually) PP> 'Tis better to suffer the slings and arrows of fully qualified names than to PP> pass unqualified names to strangers - RFC something-or-other. PP> Try the RELATIVIZE m4 define when building your sendmail.cf file. This is PP> not a complete solution, but should result in shorter names for mail used PP> within your domain. It can sometimes have unusual side-effects if the PP> interpretation of the LHS depends on the RHS. -- turns out that the RELATIVIZE option squashes things like foo%bar@some.gate.way into more direct paths that have higher probability of being delivered. Doesn't squash local names, but that's ok.