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Re: semicolons and sendmail

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From: Per Hedeland
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 23:02
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In article <P3RDf.16391$dF5.10420@bignews1.bellsouth.net> "David"
<david@newsgroups.com> writes:
>
>I have a problem on a server running FreeBSD 5.2.1 and sendmail 8.12.10
>
>Whenever I send to multiple users delimited by semicolon I get a returned
>message with the following error:

So don't do that - there is no standard e-mail context where multiple
addresses separated by semicolon is a valid syntax.

>The only way I can send to multiple users is by using a comma to separate
>the addresses.

Yes, that is the correct syntax.

> I need to be able to use semicolons.

Why on earth would you need to do that? Does the answer change if you
throw away the M$ crap that displays multiple addresses with an unusable
syntax?

--Per Hedeland
per@hedeland.org
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