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From: "Mark Andrews" <marka@isc.org>
In message <20110620223618.2927.qmail@joyce.lan>, "John Levine" writes:
You're in good company. It's hard to find a modern mail system that allows abbreviated domain names in addresses. I just checked the mail at AOL, Yahoo, Gmail, and Hotmail, and the one at Tucows which is used by a lot of large corporate mail systems, and none of them will let you send a message to an address like foo@bar. Note that Yahoo and Hotmail each handle mail for many large ISPs.
Abbreviated names make perfect sense within a company be they mail (submission), ssh or telnet or within the home.
And to take that rebuttal even further, I would suspect that username@division is a pretty common pattern in really large companies, in addition to colleges; I'm certain, for example, that USF has that pattern in its email addresses -- though whether it's mailers permit users to short cut addresses, I'm not sure. I'm sure we have some college email admins here, or on mailops; I'll ask over there and see. You would, clearly, have to be using the *internal* SMTP server, regardless of where you were sending from, in order to do that. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274