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There's a ton of legacy code and email software that will make that not work. At best, it would be pepsi@pepsi. (note trailing dot). My buddy used to be root@
by davidu 15y ago
There's a ton of legacy code and email software that will make that not work.
At best, it would be pepsi@pepsi. (note trailing dot).
My buddy used to be root@ws. but only a few MUAs and MTAs could handle delivering mail there, and always with the trailing dot.
- ianburrell 15y agoYou have to put the dot at the end to make it a fully-qualified name otherwise the resolver will think it is a hostname and add the local domain.