On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, Alessandro Vesely wrote:
Assume a forwarding recipe directs the MX server of example.com to
forward all messages destined to alice(_at_)example(_dot_)com to
bob(_at_)example(_dot_)org(_dot_)
[...] I often read the term "forwarded address" for
alice(_at_)example(_dot_)com(_dot_)
Then, what is the correct term for its counterpart bob(_at_)example(_dot_)org?
I would say alice(_at_)example(_dot_)com is an alias, and
bob(_at_)example(_dot_)org is the
target of the alias. See sections 3.5 and 3.9 of RFC 5321 for examples.
Tony.
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