Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the copyright notices on the relevant files. =================================================================== RCS file: /ftp/cvs/cvsroot/src/share/man/man7/mailaddr.7,v retrieving revision 1.13 retrieving revision 1.14 diff -u -p -r1.13 -r1.14 --- src/share/man/man7/mailaddr.7 2003/09/07 16:22:29 1.13 +++ src/share/man/man7/mailaddr.7 2010/03/01 16:52:41 1.14 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $NetBSD: mailaddr.7,v 1.13 2003/09/07 16:22:29 wiz Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: mailaddr.7,v 1.14 2010/03/01 16:52:41 jruoho Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1987, 1990, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ Simply because mail may be sent to ``use that there is any actual host named ``somedomain.com'', and does not imply a particular routing of the message. Routing is performed by Mail Transport Agents, such as -.Xr sendmail 8 , +.Xr postfix 1 , based on policies set in the MTA's configuration. .Ss Abbreviation Under certain circumstances it may not be necessary to type the entire @@ -81,15 +81,11 @@ the ``percent hack'') and others have be All these addressing formats are now considered obsolete, and should no longer be used. .Pp -To some extent, -.Xr sendmail 8 -(when running with normal configuration files) attempts to provide -backward compatibility for these addressing forms, but in practice -many of them no longer work. +To some extent, MTAs attempt to provide backward compatibility +for these addressing forms, but in practice many of them no longer work. Users should always use standard Internet style addresses. .Sh SEE ALSO -.Xr mail 1 , -.Xr sendmail 8 +.Xr mail 1 .Rs .%R RFC .%N 822