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Subject: Re: Fully-qualifying Email addresses in outgoing mail
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Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:

> If I have `To: ratinox', the message should be delivered locally because
> that is what I have told my local MTA to do.  If it is rewritten for
> canonicity with a complete domain part, then the message would be sent out
> to my MX host where I would have to grab it via POP.  That is, assuming
> that the guess is in fact correct, which given "thing First" is impossible
> to do with 100% accuracy.

Do you think this should only happen when calling a program like
/bin/mail (or mailx, or sendmail), or should it also happen when you
issue `RCPT TO: <ratinox>' to an SMTP server?

kai
-- 
A preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with.