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- From: jim@sco.COM (Jim Sullivan)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: Embedded "=" in Email address
- Message-ID: <1993Jan04.203158.3042@sco.COM>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 20:31:58 GMT
- References: <1992Dec30.141613.11005@vax.oxford.ac.uk> <1hv0ncINNmfb@dsinc.dsi.com>
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- 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
-
- Not to contradict the owner, I've tried this in the past, without success,
- running [ELM 2.4 PL5]. What I have done, at the suggestion of the keeper
- of ELM here at SCO Canada, was escape the '=', so the address is:
-
- John\=Smith@...
-
- (going across that canyon to Banyan?)
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