Parsing internal DECnet-like addresses

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From: Kannan Varadhan
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1992 15:12

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Hi,

We have a site that sends mail to us, with addresses of the form

	"SITE1::MRGATE::\"A1::USER\""@decgate.fqdn.hostname

Quotes and all...

When sendmail on my machine parses the address, it drops the
backslashes, but does send all the quotes through intact.  This causes
the message to bounce.

The remote site does accept the address if the address has all the
backslashes and quotes as it gave it to us.

The question is, which end should be fixed, and how?

For the moment, I have put in patches to prescan (it was about 4
lines), to work around this problem, but am wondering if there is a
different (more technically correct) approach.

Thanks,


Kannan
-- 
Kannan Varadhan,		1224, Kinnear Road,	+1 614 292 4137
Internet Engineer (OARnet)	Columbus, OH 43212	+1 614 292 7168 (FAX)

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From: kannan@oar.net (Kannan Varadhan)
Subject: Parsing internal DECnet-like addresses
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Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1992 15:12:20 GMT
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