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Drop superfluous .Pp's, punctuation fixes, improve citation.

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.\" $NetBSD: mailaddr.7,v 1.9 2001/09/11 01:02:18 wiz Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: mailaddr.7,v 1.10 2001/09/11 01:24:47 wiz Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1987, 1990, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@ -58,8 +58,7 @@ imply a particular routing of the message. Routing is performed by
Mail Transport Agents, such as
.Xr sendmail 8 ,
based on policies set in the MTA's configuration.
.Pp
.Ss Abbreviation.
.Ss Abbreviation
Under certain circumstances it may not be necessary to type the entire
domain name. In general, anything following the first dot may be omitted
if it is the same as the domain from which you are sending the message.
@ -67,21 +66,16 @@ For example, a user on ``calder.berkeley.edu'' could send to ``eric@CS''
without adding the ``berkeley.edu'' since it is the same on both sending
and receiving hosts. Whether abbreviation is permitted depends on how
your site is configured.
.Pp
.Ss Case Distinctions.
.Pp
.Ss Case Distinctions
Domain names (i.e., anything after the ``@'' sign) may be given in any mixture
of upper and lower case. Most hosts
accept any combination of case in user names, although there are exceptions.
.Ss Postmaster.
.Pp
.Ss Postmaster
Every site is required to have a user or user alias designated ``postmaster''
to which problems with the mail system may be addressed, for example:
.Pp
.Dl postmaster@CS.Berkeley.EDU
.Pp
.Ss Obsolete Formats.
.Pp
.Ss Obsolete Formats
Certain old address formats, such as UUCP ``bang path'' addresses,
explicitly routed internet addresses (so-called ``route-addrs'' and
the ``percent hack'') and others have been used historically. All
@ -96,11 +90,14 @@ many of them no longer work. Users should always use standard Internet
style addresses.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr mail 1 ,
.Xr sendmail 8 ;
.br
Crocker, D. H.,
.Em Standard for the Format of Arpa Internet Text Messages,
RFC822.
.Xr sendmail 8
.Rs
.%R RFC
.%N 822
.%D August 1982
.%A D. H. Crocker
.%T "Standard for the Format of Arpa Internet Text Messages"
.Re
.Sh HISTORY
.Nm
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