Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!escob1!dickson
From: dickson@escob1.UUCP (Dave Dickson)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Commas In Address - Question
Message-ID: <1341@escob1.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jul 90 19:01:55 GMT
Organization: Ohio Bell Telephone, (Eng'ng) , Columbus, OH
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Some of our machines are forced to send mail through a brain
damaged mail gateway belonging to Ameritech.  I think it feeds a
DEC "ALL-IN-ONE" system, that requires strange addressing.

The problem is mail has to be addressed as
machine!lastname,firstname.  As you can imagine, the comma
between lastname and firstname causes elm to fail; producing
'firstname' "is an unknown address ...."  failure.

My question is: has anyone modified the elm source to allow
commas in the USER field of addresses?  I have looked at the
source code and it looks like it would not be easy to do.
-- 
David G. Dickson
Ohio Bell Telephone Co. (614-223-8134)
uunet!escob1!dickson