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Article #3731Re: Is '@' ever needed?
From: Ian G Batten
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1991 15:30
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1991 15:30
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In article <797@minya.UUCP> jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers) writes: > This may sound silly, but I recently realized, and testing on an > assortment of machines has so far verified, that there seems to be no > reason to ever use '@' in a mail address. If you always use '%', > mailers that I've tested all seem to accept it and convert it to '@' > when necessary. I'm wondering if this really works everywhere. Most sendmail config files I've seen have something like this in them: R$+%$+ $1@$2 convert '%'s to '@'s R$+@$+@$+ $1%$2@$3 then reduce to only one '@' Many other mailers do something similar. It's a feature. ian
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!olivea!uunet!mcsun!ukc!axion!uzi-9mm.fulcrum.bt.co.uk!igb From: igb@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Ian G Batten) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Is '@' ever needed? Keywords: '%' Message-ID: <^=#+&~=@uzi-9mm.fulcrum.bt.co.uk> Date: 18 Jun 91 15:30:44 GMT References: <797@minya.UUCP> Sender: news@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (News with an UZI) Organization: BT Fulcrum, Birmingham Lines: 17