jss@greeble.Eng.Sun.COM (Josh Sirota) (02/21/91)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but addresses like "jss"@eng.sun.com should work
just as well as jss@eng.sun.com, right?
What happens is that the stuff in the quotes, and the quotes themselves,
don't seem to be passed to sendmail, so it tries to deliver to "@eng.sun.com"
which of course doesn't work ... but it works right in UCB Mail.
This comes up because I've been trying to reach a friend through Sprint's
e-mail service, which requires disgusting addresses like
/PN=yournamehere/O=organization/ADMD=TELEMAIL/C=US/@sprint.com
In order to get sendmail not to think I'm trying to send to a file called
/PN=yournamehere/...
I'm apparently supposed to quote the addresses, like:
"/PN=yournamehere/O=organization/ADMD=TELEMAIL/C=US/"@sprint.com
which successfully works in UCB Mail but in not in mush. How do I fix this?
Josh
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Sun Microsystems UUCP: ...!sun!eng!jssandrew@calvin.doc.ca (Andrew Patrick) (02/22/91)
In article <8284@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> jss@greeble.Eng.Sun.COM (Josh Sirota) writes: ... >This comes up because I've been trying to reach a friend through Sprint's >e-mail service, which requires disgusting addresses like > /PN=yournamehere/O=organization/ADMD=TELEMAIL/C=US/@sprint.com My fix is to enclose the address in "<>" brackets. For example: alias John_Doe </C=CANADA/ADMD=TELECOM.CANADA/ID=DOE.J/S=DOE/@nasamail.nasa.gov> is a line in my .mushrc file to direct mail to the Envoy 100 X.400 service here in Canada. If I was to specify the address on the Unix command line, I would also quote it: mush "</C=CANADA/ADMD=TELECOM.CANADA/ID=DOE.J/S=DOE/@nasamail.nasa.gov>" -- Andrew Patrick, Ph.D. Department of Communications, Ottawa, CANADA andrew@calvin.doc.CA "The interface IS the program."