Re: Need HELP getting address past MMDF

Article View: comp.mail.misc

Article #3774

#3774

From: Tom Fitzgerald
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1991 00:39

21 lines
1465 bytes

> According to jko@homer.UUCP (Jonathan O'Neal)
[ :: is getting rewritten to !! in outgoing mail ]
>>   QUESTION: Is there some simpler way to do this?  I assume the UUCP
>> channel program is massaging the address (even though it's in quotes),
>> but I can't figure out how to tell it not to.  And racing to the
>> /usr/spool/uucp/site directory after each message is getting old... ;-)

david@sco.COM (David Fiander) writes:
> The immediate answer to your problem is to switch to ELM (ouch)
> or MH (ooch), or some other User agent which does not use
> execmail.  (I hate having to say to switch away from the stuff
> we sold).

It can't just be execmail, because we've seen the same thing happen with
mail that was just being relayed through here, without ever coming in
contact with a user interface.  Mail arriving here had "::" in it, mail
arriving at our neighbor had "!!" instead.

---
Tom Fitzgerald   Wang Labs        fitz@wang.com
1-508-967-5278   Lowell MA, USA   ...!uunet!wang!fitz

Technical Details

Message-ID: <b7jttw.yg@wang.com>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!wang!fitz

References: <1991Jun19.145124.6550@homer.UUCP> <1991Jun20.131439.18385@sco.COM>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!wang!fitz
From: fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Need HELP getting address past MMDF
Keywords: MMDF UUCP mail help
Message-ID: <b7jttw.yg@wang.com>
Date: 25 Jun 91 00:39:31 GMT
References: <1991Jun19.145124.6550@homer.UUCP> <1991Jun20.131439.18385@sco.COM>
Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA
Lines: 21

Reply to Parent Message