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From: kcantrel@digi.lonestar.org (Keith Cantrell)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: How do you parse double quotes?
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Date: 17 Jul 90 22:44:55 GMT
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Vital information:  sendmail version 5.61 with IDA enhancements

I am trying to handle mail from our VMS VAX and I am running into a little
problem.  The problem is if a user mails from a machine that is not the one
that executes SMTP, the sender (both envelope and headers) are of the form:
VAX_MAIL_MACHINE!"CLUSTER_NAME::USERNAME" (with the double quotes!).  It
does not pose a problems to our mailer, but when we pass the message to
other mailers in the network, a lot of them barf on calculating the return
path.  I tried to write a rule that would match $+!"$+::$+" but sendmail
apparently handles double quotes differently than I would expect (ie. first
of all it did not match, secondly it said it was trying to match:

-----trying rule: $+ ! "^Q::^Q" 

So my question is: How do I match double quotes?  Or better yet, what will
be a good translation rule for converting
VAX_MAIL_MACHINE!"CLUSTER_NAME::USERNAME" to VAX_MAIL_MACHINE!USERNAME,
and, which rule should I put this in?

Thanks in advance,

Keith Cantrell

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