Re: peculiar Message ID

In message <e8df289954.Brian@...>
          Brian Howlett <brian.groups@...> wrote:

> On 20 Feb, Philip Draper wrote:

>> I looked at the Message ID, and it is, indeed, odd. It goes something
>> like: <number>.Philip@administrator@<my Demon domain name>.co.uk
>> Presumably those two '@'s cause confusion.

>> I don't send items to the newsgroups all that often, but I've never
>> had this problem before.

> The Message ID is created from what you have in Messenger>Choices>Site
> details>Host name, so you may well have an "@" in there which means
> when Messenger adds its bit, also including the "@", you get a
> malformed Message ID which presumably some news servers reject.

> Just change the field to yourdamain.demon.co.uk and all should be
> well.

Yes, what I have there is:
Host name: administrator@<domainname>.demon.co.uk
Mail domain: <domainname>.demon.co.uk

So are you saying both entries should be the same, without the 
'administrator'? In which case what is the difference? The truth is, 
of course, that I don't really understand the nomenclature. 
Explanation would be welcomed.

Philip.


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Philip Draper

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