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- Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx
- Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!agate!netsys!decwrl!ames!tgv.com!MADISON
- From: madison@tgv.com (Matt Madison)
- Subject: Re: VMS MAIL personal names / From: lines
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.175955.11300@news.arc.nasa.gov>
- Sender: usenet@news.arc.nasa.gov
- Reply-To: madison@tgv.com
- Organization: The Foundation for Dinner Peas
- References: <0096365E.615FEA60.12219@EIMONI.TUWIEN.AC.AT>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 17:59:55 GMT
- Lines: 38
-
- In article <0096365E.615FEA60.12219@EIMONI.TUWIEN.AC.AT>,
- "Franz Schoenbauer,Computer Science,Vienna,Austria, +43-1-58801-4126" writes:
- >I'm using MX V3.1C, VMS 5.5-1 and i have set a personal name in
- >VMS-mail. When i send a message out it appears as
- >
- >From: "Franz Schoenbauer,Computer Science,Vienna,Austria, +43-1-58801-4126"
- > <system@EIMONI.TUWIEN.AC.AT>
- >
- >at the unix box. Is this a valid from line ?
-
- Yes. It's actually two lines, though.
-
- >I've had trouble suscribing to mailing lists and it turned out
- >people couldn't use my from line, and were expecting something
- >like
- >
- >From: franzi (Franz Schoenbauer)
- >
- >which is the from line i see when i receive mail from the unix
- >box on VMS via MX.
-
- That is technically valid, too (provided for "franzi" you actually
- have a valid "user@host"-type address).
-
- I suspect that the problem is that the mailing lists that are having problems
- are having them because your address spans multiple lines. If you were
- to shorten your personal name (make it just your name, for example, leaving
- the rest of the information to a signature file), you would probably have
- an easier time.
-
- BTW, it appears that the software that gateways the MX-List mailing list
- to the vmsnet.mail.mx newsgroup (which is where I read this stuff) also has
- problems with your From: line, most likely because it spans multiple lines.
-
- -Matt
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