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From: peirce@gumby.cc.wmich.edu (Leonard J. Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Ultrix 3.1,getting rid of >"< can it be done ?
Message-ID: <896@gumby.cc.wmich.edu>
Date: 19 Oct 89 14:33:45 GMT
References: <1634.252b15c7@esat.kuleuven.ac.be> <1689@psuhcx.psu.edu>
Reply-To: peirce@gumby.cc.wmich.edu (Leonard J. Peirce)
Organization: Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
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In article <1689@psuhcx.psu.edu> wcf@psuhcx.psu.edu (Bill Fenner) writes:
>In article <1634.252b15c7@esat.kuleuven.ac.be> elsen@esat.kuleuven.ac.be writes:
. [...]
>| I'd be very interesting to know (having spend lot's of hours into this one)
>| whether there's any way at all to get rid of the quotes as well! 
>
>I suppose you've already tried R$-::"$+"	$2
>If sendmail doesn't parse the quotes as being seperate tokens, you may be
>completely out of luck.
>
>I just tried sendmail -bt, it saved a quoted string as one complete token.
>I think you're out of luck.  At least, it'll take someone smarter that I
>to help you. :-)
>

This was supposed to be fixed in ULTRIX 3.1....

I tried getting sendmail to parse the double quotes, too.  I don't think it
can be done in the .cf file.  If you had the source you could probably hack
it up but that isn't the solution.

I finally decided that the problem is mail11dv3.  It isn't stripping the
double quotes off when it gets mail from a VMS system.  Sendmail treats the
double-quoted stuff as one token and it barfs.

A kind person from DEC sent me a patched copy of mail11dv3 and it works fine.
E-mail me if you want a copy.  I'm not sure if the 3.0 version will work with
3.1 but it might be a good idea to keep the working 3.0 version around just
in case.

Side note:  If you don't want to use double quotes on the VMS side, you can
use

   To: ULTRIX::user%host.domain

Apparently, the double quotes are needed because the VMS mailer doesn't like
@ characters.
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