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Olivier2553

Trailing dot in the FQDN is ignored too

I don't know if it is still the case, but at some stage, Gmail refused to send mail to "john@example.com." but "john@example.com" was OK.

The difference? A dot after the .com bit.

But example.com. (with the trailing dot) is a perfectly valid and resolvable name, why Gmail chosed to ignore it?

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