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- Subject: Re: SET TRANSPORT command in VMS MAIL
- Message-ID: <1913228@zl2tnm.gen.nz>
- From: don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (Don Stokes)
- Date: 16 Aug 92 02:34:33 GMT
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- leichter@lrw.com (Jerry Leichter) writes:
- > MAIL> SEND
- > To: "sday@lacerta"
- >
- > apparently doesn't work.)
-
- The reason for this is that a bare quoted token is taken as a comment in
- VMS mail, rather like the () comments in RFC822. For example,
-
- MAIL> SEND
- To: JANE "Hi there"
-
- works fine, and the "Hi there" actually appears on the To: line of the
- JANE's received email.
-
- Unfortunately, this parsing is done before the SET TRANSPORT string is
- prepended, so the comment is stripped off the recipient address before
- the thing is converted to a parseable address.
-
- Note that if you use PMDF (not sure about MX, and DECUS UUCP doesn't), you
- can specify addresses as lacerta::sday, and they'll be rewritten to
- sday@lacerta, the only real snag being that the thing will be converted to
- uppercase which may confuse some un*x mailers which expect case sensitive
- userids.
-
- > SET TRANSPORT doesn't change the way MAIL parses recipient names. To do that,
- > you have to patch mail. A patch to do this has been distributed on INFO-VAX
- > before - as I recall, Harvey Brydon wrote it. I use it, which is why I can
- > only say that the example just above "apparently" doesn't work - I have no
- > easy way to test it with my patched mail code!
-
- Does anyone have the patch, or a pointer to it? I missed it when it came
- out before for some reason.
-
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