Re: Is there a workaround for Thunderbird in a corporate environment?

On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 02:25:32 -0600, Ron Hunter wrote:
> Somehow I find it hard to believe anyone regularly communicates with
> 5000 people even in a corporate environment. If so, then TB is
> certainly NOT the correct tool for the job.

Hi Ron,

What's so hard to believe?
That a company can have 5,000 logins + hundreds of mail aliases?

Or that anyone can send email inside any company of size 5,000?

I see nothing unusual at all that someone would work for a company of size
5,000 and that they could send dozens to scores of emails a day to any of
those recipients.

Besides, that's not the issue.

The issue is that the Thunderbird MUA, unlike all other MUA's to date, has
"decided" on it's own, to provide the MTA with the domain - and Thunderbird
has decided that the only domain it will accept is that of the users' MTA -
and, worse yet, that default domain MUST be appended to every single email
address including those of email aliases BEFORE sending that email to the
MTA (which, we may add, could have added the default domain much more
easily and transparently).

This is progress?
I suspect this violates one of the basic mail RFCs (but I don't know that
for sure).