Subject: Sending mail locally

From: [email-masked]
Date: 14 May 1995 04:33:59 GMT

When sending a message to someone locally, with
      To: <user>
pine will expand that to
      To: <user@localmachine>
unlike most mailers user agents.

I would like to turn that feature off (actually it's a bug, because it
bugs me).  Anyone know how?
   === Al

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From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 18:12:06 -0700

Briefly, the answer is "no".  Of course, you can modify the source code
(which we distribute) and build a private version.

The question is why do you want to do this?  20+ years of experience in
the Internet indicates that this is a terrible idea.  Historically, a
capability of omitting the local host name has caused more grief
(particularly in terms of mishandled email) than just about any other.

About 15 or so years ago, a widespread concensus was reached among email
developers that it should be extermined if at all possible, and that any
suppression of local host names should be strictly as a display feature.
Pine was developed about 10 years after this concensus.

Please reconsider.

> bugs me).  Anyone know how?

-- Mark --

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