charles@c3pe.UUCP (Charles Green) (02/09/90)
I'm setting up a convenient name structure for users on one of our subdomains.
For simplicity, I felt the easiest way to allow fullnames would be to have
firstname.lastname@sub.dom.ain
look in /usr/lib/aliases to see what "firstname.lastname" mapped to.
However, one of our 'sendmail' programs complains about me trying to alias
"non-local" names when I run 'newaliases', while the other happily accepts
the name and maps it as desired.
I've also discovered that some other hosts have some trouble passing mail
addressed in this manner to us; in particular, "first.last%sub.dom" fails
while "first.last@sub.dom" succeeds.
What all this means to me is that, even though this construction is legal
without quoting the local part according to RFC 822, some trouble can be
expected in the actual implementation.
So, I ask the net if there is an accepted "standard" for specifying full
names in the localpart of an address. Is it "first last"@dom.ain ?
"first.last"@dom.ain ? first_last@dom.ain?
Thanks for any and all comments; I'll be glad to summarize.
-Charles Green, charles_green@ct.c3.com (for the time being...)
--
"IOUT should never be allowed to equal ILIMIT, even for a microsecond."
charles@C3.COM {decuac.dec.com,cucstud}!c3pe!charles ex::!echo Boo:andy@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Andy S Poling) (02/10/90)
In article <8349@c3pe.UUCP> charles@c3pe.UUCP (charles Green) writes: >I'm setting up a convenient name structure for users on one of our subdomains. >For simplicity, I felt the easiest way to allow fullnames would be to have > > firstname.lastname@sub.dom.ain > >look in /usr/lib/aliases to see what "firstname.lastname" mapped to. >However, one of our 'sendmail' programs complains about me trying to alias >"non-local" names when I run 'newaliases', while the other happily accepts >the name and maps it as desired. If the alias does not resolve to the "local" mailer, then sendmail will complain about aliasing non-local names. >So, I ask the net if there is an accepted "standard" for specifying full >names in the localpart of an address. Is it "first last"@dom.ain ? >"first.last"@dom.ain ? first_last@dom.ain? This isn't an accepted standard, but I can guarantee that "first last@domain" and "first.last@domain" will eventually cause problems. "first_last@domain" has never been a problem for me and is the method I've chosen to use to express "fullname addresses". -Andy -- Andy Poling Internet: andy@gollum.hcf.jhu.edu Network Services Group Bitnet: ANDY@JHUVMS Homewood Academic Computing Voice: (301)338-8096 Johns Hopkins University UUCP: mimsy!aplcen!jhunix!gollum!andy