What does %u mean to smail 3?

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From: newshound
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1990 21:16

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	What significance does %u have to smail 3?  I sent a mail message
to someone at uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu, using this form:
	username%uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu@my_backbone
and it was resolved to
	username2155879098okmax.ecn.uoknor.edu@my_backbone
but the expansion is not in the smail logfile.  How can I escape the % so
that smail reads it literally?

-- Bob
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                     Bob Izenberg [ ] Ralph Kirkley Associates
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Subject: What does %u mean to smail 3?
Keywords: smail percent internet mail address
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Date: 9 Jan 90 21:16:45 GMT
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