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From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Commas In Address - Question
Message-ID: <1990Jul7.203614.23912@DSI.COM>
Date: 7 Jul 90 20:36:14 GMT
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Reply-To: syd@DSI.COM
Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc.  Huntingdon Valley, PA
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dickson@escob1.UUCP (Dave Dickson) writes:
: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.
One of the features on the drawing board for 2.4 is to allow
the "" form of addressing and to allow escape chars in the addresses.

I hope those do make it into 2.4, but again 2.4 is a year away.
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Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP                   Elm Coordinator
Datacomp Systems, Inc.                          Voice: (215) 947-9900
syd@DSI.COM or dsinc!syd                        FAX:   (215) 938-0235