In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >There are also mail domains to consider. They have superficially the same >syntax as host names (they cannot have a trailing dot) but they are >generally checked much more strictly for conformance to that syntax. I'm >not sure whether the original post was about a mail domain or the name of >a mail host, but if it was the former I would be surprised if the customer >could claim that it works most of the time.
Hostnames can't have a dot at the end either. The dot at the end is a local resolver indication to not use the search list. Mark