Outlook 2003 & domain names

[Fountain of knowledge]

Hi. I am using Windows 2K/XP and Office 2000/2003. The mail server
is a Linux machine running Sendmail. Consequently to send an internal
e-mail (at the moment) you have to specify the full mail address.
i.e. (e-mail address removed)

The question/problem I have is that if you are using Outlook 2000 you
can send an internal mail by just using jsmith@spain and let the mail
server & DNS do the rest. This is great because it saves typing out
our crazy long mail addresses.

However, if you are using Outlook 2003, it does not let you do this.
If you try to send a mail to jsmith@spain Outlook 2003 will tell you
that it does not recognise the mail address. I am guessing that this
is because it does not conform to what Outlook 2003 is expecting.
i.e. a FQDN.

Does anyone know any way that I can configure Outlook 2003 to behave
like Outlook 2000 for this functionality only?

TIA

 

[Patrick Reed [MVP - Outlook]]

Try

[smtp:jsmith]

(include the brackets [])

 

[Fountain of knowledge]

Try

[smtp:jsmith]

(include the brackets [])

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Perfect! Is this sort of info published anyway? (apart from here ;-) )

 

[Patrick Reed [MVP - Outlook]]

www.slipstick.com

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"Patrick Reed [MVP - Outlook]" <[email protected]> wrote in message

Try

[smtp:jsmith]

(include the brackets [])

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Perfect! Is this sort of info published anyway? (apart from here ;-) )