| gabriel rosenkoetter on Thu, 5 Dec 2002 22:59:20 -0500 |
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On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 10:37:24PM -0500, Tobias DiPasquale wrote: > Ok, let's finish this: The RFC REQUIRES the domain part for it to be a > valid SMTP address. It requires a user and domain part for ALL SMTP > senders and recipients. In this, it is quite clear. (RFC 822/2822) But what bearing have the SMTP RFCs on local mail delivery? It doesn't *use* SMTP (unless you tell it to). It doesn't use UUCP either. It can just drop the mail in the right spool. Now, it so happens that almost all MTAs in common use on Unix-like operating systems speak SMTP and, for convenience's sake, speak it almost all of the time, but it's by no means a requirement for local mail delivery for "localhost" to even resolve, nor for there even to be any concept of networking, much less IP networking. -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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