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- From: syd@dsi.com (Syd Weinstein)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: Embedded "=" in Email address
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 09:39:40 -0500
- Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc., Huntingdon Valley, PA
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- Message-ID: <1hv0ncINNmfb@dsinc.dsi.com>
- References: <1992Dec30.141613.11005@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
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- jpolak@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:
- >I have a correspondent whoes Email address is of the form
-
- > John=Smith@....
-
- >that is, it has an "=" embedded in it. If I try to setup an alias
- >for this address elm is not able to parse it properly (it seems to
- >assume that the embedded "=" is a component of the aliasing syntax).
-
- >Is there any way around this problem, e.g., is there an escape character
- >I can use to force elm to treat the embedded "=" literally.
-
- In 2.4, the proper method is to quote the address, as in
- "John=Smith"@site
-
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- Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP Elm Coordinator - Current 2.4PL17
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