DSTEVENS@VAXC.STEVENS-TECH.EDU (David L. Stevens) (06/27/88)
Hi, We've set up our username formats to use "$" in them (ie foo$bar could be a username). We are now finding that some mailers out in net land are not able to send to these addresses. Does anyone have any information on why a mailer would be complaining about this. After all RFC822 does not say that a username can't have a '$' in it. Thanx for any and all info David L. Stevens Senior Systems Programmer Stevens Institute of Technology Bitnet: DSTEVENS@SITVXC Internet: DSTEVENS@VAXC.STEVENS-TECH.EDU ------------
52032_2326@uwovax.uwo.ca (Mark Hartwell) (07/11/88)
In article <8852793512.2040025f.DSTEVENS>, DSTEVENS@VAXC.STEVENS-TECH.EDU (David L. Stevens) writes: > > We've set up our username formats to use "$" in them (ie foo$bar could > be a username).... > .... After all RFC822 does not say that a username can't have a '$' in it. > Be warned that VMS also treats an embedded "$" as a special character. I recall reading that VAX warns users that the dollar sign is a reserved character, for MicroVMS systems (4.5 or so) Last year I set up logical names for disks (such as USER_ROOT to reference DUA1:[USERS$ROOT.]), which worked great. However, wild-card directory searches could not "see" sub-directories within [USER$ROOT...] This included our nightly backup procedures. Now before excess mail is dropped to me, I can not recall the exact details of the situation, but embedded dollar signs look nice but >***may***< shaft you. Mark Hartwell London, Ontario