jwp@larry.sal.wisc.edu (Jeffrey W Percival) (09/13/89)
I'm sitting here at my Ultrix Internet site and I get mail from a!b!user@foo.edu... How do I mail back to this user? I have not found the right combo of backslashes, percents, and so on to please my mailer. Do I type something different depending on whether I'm "in mail" or typing to the shell? -- Jeff Percival (jwp@larry.sal.wisc.edu)
ask@cbnews.ATT.COM (Arthur S. Kamlet) (09/14/89)
In article <726@larry.sal.wisc.edu> jwp@larry.sal.wisc.edu (Jeffrey W Percival) writes: >I'm sitting here at my Ultrix Internet site and I get mail >from a!b!user@foo.edu... > >How do I mail back to this user? I have not found the right combo >of backslashes, percents, and so on to please my mailer. It's unfortunate that some system mailer has mixed "!" and "@" addresses. That's major trouble. What you need to do is figure out how to properly parse that address into either a "!" or "% @" type address, and then parse it yourself. I prefer "!" addressing, so I might guess a!b!user@foo.edu should be parsed as foo.edu!a!b!user and that's a perfectly good looking mail address. Unfortunately, it could be completely wrong. The correct parse might have been a!b!foo.edu!user or even something else. Whenever you find mixed "!" and "@" you must make a good educated guess, and stick with all of one type. -- Art Kamlet a_s_kamlet@att.com AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus