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Article #1654x400 addresses and the UNIX mail program
From: Brian Myers
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 1990 07:38
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 1990 07:38
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I'm trying to send mail from a UNIX system on Bitnet to somebody on a system that uses x400 address formats. The address I'm sending to looks something like this: /C=US/STUFF/MORESTUFF/YETMORE/@SPRINT.COM But no matter what I do, if I put that address after the "mail" command I end up with a "no such file" error message. Apparently those slashes get interpreted as directory delimiters. I've tried quotation marks, aliases, and backslashes in various combinations with no luck--always the same message. How do I get mail to treat that string very literally, without thinking I've written a file path? Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Myers bmyers@garnet.berkeley.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!apple!agate!garnet.berkeley.edu!bmyers From: bmyers@garnet.berkeley.edu (Brian Myers) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: x400 addresses and the UNIX mail program Summary: can't get them to work Message-ID: <1990Aug31.073854.13485@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 31 Aug 90 07:38:54 GMT Sender: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu (USENET Administrator) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 16