From: bwr607@hotmail.com 
  
 "Paul Ebermann"  wrote in 
 news:ci1mep.3vvo8m5.1@hamster.epaul.my-fqdn.de: 
  
 >> BAD: Everything looks fine, but the email goes to a local bit bucket. 
 >>      (invalid@example.com) 
 > 
 > What about invalid@example.invalid ? 
  
 You're right. ".invalid" needs to be the top-level domain..after the dot. 
 Before the @ symbol, it would just go to the "example.com" domain. That 
 domain owner might have a catch-all and actually receive all e-mails for 
 that domain. 
  
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 Bill 
  
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