[comp.mail.sendmail] map colons to dots everywhere..... ????

ddickey@gonzo.eta.com (Dan A. Dickey) (04/07/89)

Can anyone tell me why in the individual mailer Sender/Reciever
rules that it maps "colons to dots everywhere....."?
Is this some holdover from a while ago that is no longer needed?
Exactly what is it meant to handle?

It is causing us a slight problem internally, in that when our
Suns reply to Apollo mailing lists (specified by a name with a trailing
colon), the Suns map the trailing colon to a dot.

I presently have our Sun sendmail's configured with 5.61 cf files,
and am running sendmail 5.58 on all the suns (with named).
Dan A. Dickey    ddickey@gonzo.eta.com