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- From: dan@innosoft.com (Daniel C. Newman)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.pmdf
- Subject: RE: Strange forwarding problem.
- Message-ID: <01GOCFH31P6A9TCN1O@INNOSOFT.COM>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 03:42:15 GMT
- Organization: The Internet
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- X-Vms-To: IN%"stodola@orion.fccc.edu"
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- > We have a situation where a network alias (J_Blow@fccc.edu) points to Joe's
- > VMS account (Blow@rm.fccc.edu). Joe wishes to forward his VMS mail to his Unix
- > account (J_Blow@xyz.fccc.edu). Unfortunately, xyz recognizes J_Blow as an
- > alias which then loops. We had hoped to fudge the problem by putting a
- > backslash in the forwarding address on the VAX side. Unfortunately, putting
- > in one backslash (set forward "in%""\j_blow@xyz.fccc.edu""") appears to
- > swallow the backslash, while putting two backslashes causes PMDF to complain
- > about a bad address (\J_Blow...).
- >
- > Flames aside (and I recognize that many are deserved in this situation!), if
- > someone could explain how one might do this in PMDF, I'd be most grateful.
- > We have some workarounds which may be better anyway, but I'd like to understand
- > the options.
-
- Backslash is, in RFC822 parlance, a "special" and must be quoted when it
- appears in a mailbox name. So, the legal RFC822 address for what you're
- trying to do is "\j_blow"@xyz.fccc.edu. To specify such an address in
- VMS MAIL, you must use IN%"'\j_blow'@xyz.fccc.edu". To set a VMS MAIL
- forwarding address of this form, use the command
-
- MAIL> SET FORWARD "IN%""'\j_blow'@xyz.fcc.edu"""
-
- Dan
-