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From: munnari!csc.anu.oz.au!gih900@UUNET.UU.NET (Geoff Huston)
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Subject: RE: V5.9 problems REPLYing to a message/note !
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Date: 10 Oct 89 19:16:46 GMT
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>I seem to be having a BAD problem with news V5.9.  I cannot REPLY to
>any postings.   Here's what happens.
>
>NEWS> REPLY
>Subject=this is a sample subject
>TO: SOMEUSER@SOMESITE.SOMEDOMAIN
>(the editor is now invoked).......
>(I hit ctrl-z to send the message)
>
>and I get
>
>%MAIL-E-INVALID Invalid user spec '"user@somesite.somedomain"""'
     
The double quotes are the giveaway.
     
In a recent set of postings (about two weeks ago) a mandatory fix to
NEWS_ADDRESS.CNF was described..
     
With V5.9 of NEWS mail adddresses are NOT passed to DCL and from there to the
mailer - the mail is passed DIRECTLY to the mailer - the " characters in the
address config file used to make DCL ignore special characters in the mail
address have to be REMOVED now that the mailer is being invoked directly
     
i.e.
     
    "protocol%""address"""
     
should become
     
     protocol%"address"
     
and so on
     
     
Geoff Huston