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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: <1992Nov10.180517.11433@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>,<1dnuj5INN3ep@gap.caltech.edu>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 18:05:17 GMT
- Lines: 23
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- In article <1dnuj5INN3ep@gap.caltech.edu>, carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick) writes:
- >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 ?
- >
- >No. The commas aren't allowed. The basic format is fine, but you can't use
- >special characters ("(", ")", "<", ">", "@", ",", ";", ":", "\", ".",
- >"[", "]", or the quote character (") itself) in your personal name.
-
- Uh, actually the answer is Yes. MX_MAILSHR scans your VMS MAIL personal name
- and quotes it if it contains one of the "specials", as it did in the above
- From: line. That makes it OK.
-
- -Matt
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