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- From: mea@polaris.utu.fi (Matti Aarnio)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: Embedded "=" in Email address
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.203604.19001@polaris.utu.fi>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 20:36:04 GMT
- References: <1992Dec30.141613.11005@vax.oxford.ac.uk> <1hv0ncINNmfb@dsinc.dsi.com> <1992Dec31.214750.11012@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
- Organization: University of Turku, Computing Centre
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- jpolak@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:
- >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.
-
- With plain 2.3 there is no way to do it.
- (I know, I tried..) I have made a set of patches which enable generic
- X.400 addresses to be used -- with plenty of embedded `='-chars...
-
- >Any further suggestions?
-
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- >John Polak
-
- /Matti Aarnio <mea@utu.fi>
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