the mysterious ".smtp" TLD

[Neil Herber]

In a recent SIMS discussion it was suggested that the router entry:

domain.com = domain.com.smtp

would be sufficient to redirect mail from a secondary (domain.com) to a primary (domain.com.smtp) server.

Unless I am sadly mistaken, there is no top level domain "smtp", and what the author meant to say was:

domain.com = smtp.domain.com

However, I just tried a test on the router page of SIMS v 1.8b9d14. I made NO entry changes in the router itself, I just gave it this address:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Which is what [EMAIL PROTECTED] would be turned into by the first router entry above. Lo and behold, the result that SIMS gives is:

anybody at SMTP(domain.com)

In other words, when parsing the domain part of the address, it discards the trailing ".smtp". (It does not discard things like .abcd)

I then added the following router entry:

domain.com =domain.com.smtp

and gave it the test address:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

with the following result:

anybody at SMTP(domain.com) (safe)

Now I am really confused! What the heck is going on here?

--
Neil

Neil Herber
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