It did that if you sent to any other toplevel domain that had wildcards, and others do. The behavior hasn't changed. Your mail client was making a false assumption. That is a bug in the software. The mail client shouldn't be looking up domains. It should be sending it to the relay. The relay then decides where to send the message. The relay may be configured to route non-DNS domains, or do translations to other systems. Your mail client can't know about that. If the relay can't send the message somewhere, then it is supposed to bounce the message. This decision is made by the relay, not the mail client. Your mail client has had a bug, for a long time. --Dean On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Doug Royer wrote: > > Before the change if I email user@bogushost.com, the email tool would > tell me immedatally > that no such host exists. > > Now, it unconditionally sends the email, then later bounces. This is a > HUGE difference > in behaviour. > > -- > > Doug Royer | http://INET-Consulting.com > -------------------------------|----------------------------- > Doug@Royer.com | Office: (208)612-INET > http://Royer.com/People/Doug | Fax: (866)594-8574 > | Cell: (208)520-4044 > > We Do Standards - You Need Standards > >