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From: fetrow@milton.acs.washington.edu (David Fetrow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: How do you reply to !foo.uucp addresses?
Message-ID: <4039@milton.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 9 Jun 90 08:36:01 GMT
References: <1990Jun4.152017.8229@csmil.umich.edu> <2189@tmiuv0.uucp>
Reply-To: fetrow@milton.u.washington.edu (David Fetrow)
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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In article <2189@tmiuv0.uucp> rick@tmiuv0.uucp writes:
#In article <1990Jun4.152017.8229@csmil.umich.edu>, chymes@fribourg.csmil.umich.edu (Charles Hymes) writes:
#> How do I send mail to people with addresses like 
#> 
#> !cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!waf2000!will
#> 
#> and other ! filled addresss? I dont know how to fill the To: line so that Mhmail
#> dosen't choke.
#> Charlweed
#

  A common problem is that the C shell and its derivitives interpret the
"!" before it ever reaches the mailer. If you are using the C shell on a
Unix system to send mail interactively then it's a very good idea to escape
the "!" by substituting "\!" for each "!" in the address.

 Ordinarily I wouldn't post this but it comes up....A LOT.

-- 
 -dave fetrow-                     fetrow@bones.biostat.washington.edu
 dfetrow@uwalocke (bitnet)         {uunet}!uw-beaver!uw-entropy!fetrow 

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