Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Re: Commas In Address - Question Message-ID: Date: 8 Jul 90 14:06:30 GMT References: <1341@escob1.UUCP> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 13 In article <1341@escob1.UUCP> 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. I have a similar problem with machines that use "machine%user" instead of "user%machine". I use smail, and have it run every delivery through a shell script that munges the address for the system I'm talking to. In this case, you could mail to machine!lastname.firstname and have it change the period to a comma (this is what the Compuserve gateway does). If you can't munge the mailer, you could modify elm to pass through an appropriate filter which looks for mail to "machine" and does the conversion. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180.