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Re: [ietf-smtp] Dotless domains and email

2013-07-09 01:20:41


Yeah.  Over in Mac land, no warning on dotless domain, but iCloud's Oracle
servers then tried to qualify the domains and hence failed.

FWIW, this is entirely configurable. If you want dotless domains to
be treated as bare gTLDs you can get that, if you want them qualified
with your local domain you can get that. You can also have only
valid gTLDs treated as bare gTLDs, the rest handled some other way.


It may be configurable on an individual level, but if Google, Apple or whoever 
want to be able to publish "sales@apple" type addresses, they've got no chance. 
It just wouldn't work for billions of people. They'd have to say "just email us 
on sales@apple and if that doesn't work go reconfigure your mail server, change 
ISP, reconfigure your dns server, upgrade your infrastructure, change the way 
you access local resources, etc"

They just need to accept that it won't work, and CAN'T be made to work for 
everyone at a global level.
-

Paul Smith Computer Services
Tel: 01484 855800
Vat No: GB 685 6987 53

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