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From: alschnei@starlink.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Parsing dotted 'To:' field in BSDI
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 00:45:18 GMT
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This is probably a stupid question, but...

I've seen email addresses comprised of the following...

user.mailID@domain.com

How do you set up sendmail (or BSD) to accomodate such an address?

How can the mail get to mailID@domain.com but still retain the
user.mailID as the header?  I have a user that wants to pull all mail
from his mailID address and then have his machine on his network send
it to the user.  So, the mail will be recived by domain.com under the
name mailID.  User mailID will log in and pop the mail to his server.
Then, use local software to send it to the individual user on their
network.

TIA.

Alan Schneider