113 lines
4.6 KiB
Groff
113 lines
4.6 KiB
Groff
.\" $NetBSD: mailaddr.7,v 1.7 1999/03/15 08:22:21 garbled Exp $
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.\" @(#)mailaddr.7 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/16/93
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.\"
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.Dd June 16, 1998
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.Dt MAILADDR 7
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm mailaddr
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.Nd mail addressing description
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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Mail addresses are based on the Internet protocol listed at the end of this
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manual page. These addresses are in the general format
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.Pp
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.Dl user@domain
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.Pp
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where a domain is a hierarchical dot separated list of subdomains. For
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example, a valid address is:
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.Pp
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.Dl eric@CS.Berkeley.EDU
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.Pp
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Unlike some other (now obsolete) forms of addressing, domains do not
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imply any routing, or the existance of a particular host. Simply
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because mail may be sent to ``user@somedomain.com'' does not imply
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that there is any actual host named ``somedomain.com'', and does not
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imply a particular routing of the message. Routing is performed by
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Mail Transport Agents, such as
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.Xr sendmail 8 ,
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based on policies set in the MTA's configuration.
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.Pp
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.Ss Abbreviation.
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Under certain circumstances it may not be necessary to type the entire
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domain name. In general, anything following the first dot may be omitted
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if it is the same as the domain from which you are sending the message.
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For example, a user on ``calder.berkeley.edu'' could send to ``eric@CS''
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without adding the ``berkeley.edu'' since it is the same on both sending
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and receiving hosts. Whether abbreviation is permitted depends on how
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your site is configured.
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.Pp
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.Ss Case Distinctions.
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.Pp
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Domain names (i.e., anything after the ``@'' sign) may be given in any mixture
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of upper and lower case. Most hosts
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accept any combination of case in user names, although there are exceptions.
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.Ss Postmaster.
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.Pp
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Every site is required to have a user or user alias designated ``postmaster''
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to which problems with the mail system may be addressed, for example:
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.Pp
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.Dl postmaster@CS.Berkeley.EDU
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.Pp
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.Ss Obsolete Formats.
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.Pp
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Certain old address formats, such as UUCP ``bang path'' addresses,
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explicitly routed internet addresses (so-called ``route-addrs'' and
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the ``percent hack'') and others have been used historically. All
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these addressing formats are now considered obsolete, and should no
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longer be used.
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.Pp
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To some extent,
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.Xr sendmail 8
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(when running with normal configuration files) attempts to provide
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backward compatibility for these addressing forms, but in practice
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many of them no longer work. Users should always use standard Internet
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style addresses.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr mail 1 ,
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.Xr sendmail 8 ;
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.br
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Crocker, D. H.,
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.Em Standard for the Format of Arpa Internet Text Messages,
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RFC822.
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.Sh HISTORY
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.Nm Mailaddr
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appeared in
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.Bx 4.2 .
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.Sh BUGS
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The RFC822 group syntax (``group:user1,user2,user3;'') is not supported
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except in the special case of ``group:;'' because of a conflict with old
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berknet-style addresses, not that anyone cares about either berknet or
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group syntax style addresses any longer.
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