Re: Mail Headers question.

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From: Robert Nicholson
Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 07:51

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<steppler@orome.dfv.rwth-aachen.de> writes:

>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Nicholson <robert@steffi.demon.co.uk> writes:
Robert>Can anybody explain the following...

Robert>Where did the ',' come from in

Robert>To: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk(Robert, Nicholson)

Robert>in both the elm and the emacs message.

Robert>and why did the emacs message fail when the exact
Robert>equivalent message from elm was successfully delivered?

>I guess you have an entry in your .mailrc-file like this:

>alias me 	robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)

>Change it to

>alias me	"robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)"

>and your ,-problem will disappear in Emacs.

>In .elm/aliases.text my aliases look this way:

>me = Robert Nicholson = robert@steffi.demon.co.uk

I have no such entries... People have suggested that Emacs passes on
different headers to smail and so smail doesn't cope correctly with
them..

I'm still investigating.
--
                 "Emacs isn't pretty. It's functional!"
                    (ASCII for text only messages)

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From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
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Subject: Re: Mail Headers question.
Date: 16 May 1994 07:51:13 GMT
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