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Re: any clairvoyents out there?

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From: Scott Larnach
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1989 11:06
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| c) IFF the sender has dots in his/her name (eg some.body@somewhere) ,
| the address seems to get spaces put around the "@", so that there are
| now three receipients;-

I used to get a similar problem with our EMAS machine... it would send
messages that had originator fields like

	From: Some.Body @ uk.ac.edinburgh

with spaces in the address. Sendmail would generate errors to

	"Some.Body", "@", and "uk.ac.edinburgh"

Your problem sounds the same. I fixed mine by changing the "o" option
as follows:

	# DO NOT default messages to old style - comma delimiting only.
	OoF

Only commas will seperate addresses in address lists now. I have not
noticed any problems with doing this.

Scott Larnach
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From: scott@etive.ed.ac.uk (Scott Larnach)
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Subject: Re: any clairvoyents out there?
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Date: 20 Apr 89 11:06:14 GMT
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