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Remove dead references to sendmail(8).

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jruoho 2010-03-01 16:52:41 +00:00
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@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
.\" $NetBSD: mailaddr.7,v 1.13 2003/09/07 16:22:29 wiz Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: mailaddr.7,v 1.14 2010/03/01 16:52:41 jruoho Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1987, 1990, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ Simply because mail may be sent to ``user@somedomain.com'' does not imply
that there is any actual host named ``somedomain.com'', and does not
imply a particular routing of the message.
Routing is performed by Mail Transport Agents, such as
.Xr sendmail 8 ,
.Xr postfix 1 ,
based on policies set in the MTA's configuration.
.Ss Abbreviation
Under certain circumstances it may not be necessary to type the entire
@ -81,15 +81,11 @@ the ``percent hack'') and others have been used historically.
All these addressing formats are now considered obsolete, and should no
longer be used.
.Pp
To some extent,
.Xr sendmail 8
(when running with normal configuration files) attempts to provide
backward compatibility for these addressing forms, but in practice
many of them no longer work.
To some extent, MTAs attempt to provide backward compatibility
for these addressing forms, but in practice many of them no longer work.
Users should always use standard Internet style addresses.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr mail 1 ,
.Xr sendmail 8
.Xr mail 1
.Rs
.%R RFC
.%N 822