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Article #296Re: VMS MAIL personal names / From: lines
From: Matt Madison
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 18:05
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 18:05
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In article <1dnuj5INN3ep@gap.caltech.edu>, carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick) writes:
>In article <0096365E.615FEA60.12219@EIMONI.TUWIEN.AC.AT>, "Franz Schoenbauer,Computer Science,Vienna,Austria, +43-1-58801-4126" writes:
>>I'm using MX V3.1C, VMS 5.5-1 and i have set a personal name in
>>VMS-mail. When i send a message out it appears as
>>
>>From: "Franz Schoenbauer,Computer Science,Vienna,Austria, +43-1-58801-4126"
> ^ ^ ^
>> <system@EIMONI.TUWIEN.AC.AT>
>
>>at the unix box. Is this a valid from line ?
>
>No. The commas aren't allowed. The basic format is fine, but you can't use
>special characters ("(", ")", "<", ">", "@", ",", ";", ":", "\", ".",
>"[", "]", or the quote character (") itself) in your personal name.
Uh, actually the answer is Yes. MX_MAILSHR scans your VMS MAIL personal name
and quotes it if it contains one of the "specials", as it did in the above
From: line. That makes it OK.
-Matt
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Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!agate!netsys!decwrl!ames!tgv.com!MADISON From: madison@tgv.com (Matt Madison) Subject: Re: VMS MAIL personal names / From: lines Message-ID: <1992Nov10.180517.11433@news.arc.nasa.gov> Sender: usenet@news.arc.nasa.gov Reply-To: madison@tgv.com Organization: The Foundation for Dinner Peas References: <0096365E.615FEA60.12219@EIMONI.TUWIEN.AC.AT>,<1dnuj5INN3ep@gap.caltech.edu> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 18:05:17 GMT Lines: 23