Re: dxmail on ULTRIX

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From: Frederick M. Avolio
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 18:20

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In article <1drnfhINN3cj@ef2007.efhd.ford.com>, mjo@slee10.srl.ford.com (Mike O'Connor) writes:
>:>It's a good address because I had someone on a SUN forward it for me.
>
>It's NOT a good address.  "!" mixed with "@" and "%" mixed with "@"
>can cause problems, and "!" and "%" mixed with "@" usually DOES cause
>problems.  

Nonsense.  It is a perfectly good address.  Good, bad, and ugly are
three different things.  It is an ugly address.  It is confusing only to
someone who doesn't know the rules (@ has precedence), and for broken
sendmail.cf files.

ULTRIX's standard sendmail.cf is broken in that it did not give @ priority
the way most of the world does.  It has been fixed in OSF/1 and in the
original posters situation as well.

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arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!sgiblab!darwin.sura.net!haven.umd.edu!decuac!decuac!avolio

References: <1992Nov11.000045.29463@ll.mit.edu> <1992Nov11.142812.9171@panix.com> <1drnfhINN3cj@ef2007.efhd.ford.com>

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From: avolio@dco.DEC.COM (Frederick M. Avolio)
Subject: Re: dxmail on ULTRIX
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References: <1992Nov11.000045.29463@ll.mit.edu> <1992Nov11.142812.9171@panix.com> <1drnfhINN3cj@ef2007.efhd.ford.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 18:20:35 GMT

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