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patl@cag.lcs.mit.edu (Patrick J. LoPresti) writes:

> But when you use 'smtpmail-send-it, the message goes straight to the
> smtp daemon which performs no canonicalizations of any kind.

Why doesn't the smtp daemon do canonicalizations?  IMHO any smtp
daemon which does not convert local addresses to qualified addresses
when sending a message to another host is not configured correctly.

Suppose a user does this?

    $ telnet localhost smtp
    HELO myname
    MAIL FROM: <kai>
    RCPT TO: <peter>
    RCPT TO: <karl@cs.uni-helgoland.de>
    DATA
    To: peter, karl@cs.uni-helgoland.de
    From: kai
    Subject: Good Morning

    Good morning, Peter and Karl!
    Kai
    .

Shouldn't the smtp daemon on localhost convert `peter' into
`peter@myname.mydomain.de' before sending the message to
karl@cs.uni-helgoland.de? 

kai
-- 
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