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From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Elm 2.2 PL10
Keywords: All mail is lost if /usr/spool is full !
Message-ID: <1989Nov19.174411.13834@DSI.COM>
Date: 19 Nov 89 17:44:11 GMT
References: <91266@pyramid.pyramid.com> <1989Nov16.145450.14312@DSI.COM> <7739@cdis-1.uucp>
Reply-To: syd@DSI.COM
Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc.  Huntingdon Valley, PA
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tanner@cdis-1.uucp (Dr. T. Andrews) writes:

:In article <1989Nov16.145450.14312@DSI.COM>, syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein) writes:
:) EB26 When using an address of the form "node!user@domain", the !
:)      has higher precedence than the @ when elm resolves the ad-
:)      dress.  The @ should have higher precedence.
:Actually, mixed @/! addresses are frowned upon.  Each mailer is free
:to mis-handle them in the most convenient manner.
I beg to differ, RFC976 is quite specific as to how to handle them.
(RFC976 is how to convert @ addresses to ! for uucp use.)
Elm is supposed to be a complient mailer, so it should follow the 
standard.
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