Re: [Evolution] How set a default domain for domainless emails??? e.g. sendto: Fred

["Patrick O'Callaghan" <poc usb ve>]

On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 17:44 -0800, Des Dougan wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 08:31 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > So there's no concept of a "default domain"? I've frequently thought
> > this would be useful, especially for those of us who work from several
> > locations. I correspond with a large user community at my institution,
> > both from the office and from home, so it's not a question of putting
> > everyone in my address book, and I've found the LDAP lookup from Evo to
> > be really slow -- whereas Thunderbird for some reason is very fast,
> > against the same server -- so it would be a nice feature. I guess I'll
> > file a wishlist request.
>
>
> If I type in e.g. "des" with no domain, it will default to my account
> name on my server, and will deliver mail correctly. Is this not what
> you're asking?

Not always. At work, this is fine. At home, my SMTP server belongs to an
ISP and their concept of default domain is not what I want.

I filed a wishlist bug but someone replied that it was harder than it
looked because addresses with no domain are just sent to the SMTP
server. I think it could still be done fairly easily (if no "default
domain" is set, just behave as now, otherwise use it). There is another
solution: set up your own sendmail locally to do the right thing. Not
realistic for Joe User.

poc