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- From: jpolak@vax.oxford.ac.uk
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: Embedded "=" in Email address
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.214750.11012@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 21:47:50 GMT
- References: <1992Dec30.141613.11005@vax.oxford.ac.uk> <1hv0ncINNmfb@dsinc.dsi.com>
- Organization: Oxford University VAX 6620
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- In article <1hv0ncINNmfb@dsinc.dsi.com>, syd@dsi.com (Syd Weinstein) writes:
- > 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
-
- Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately I'm using 2.3, and the
- quoting method you suggest appears not to work - i.e., it still
- interprets the address as "Smith"@site, not "John=Smith"@site.
-
- Any further suggestions?
-
- --
- John Polak
-