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From: moore@cs.utk.edu (Keith Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: How do you parse double quotes?
Message-ID: <1990Jul18.170636.8340@cs.utk.edu>
Date: 18 Jul 90 17:06:36 GMT
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In article <798@digi.lonestar.org> kcantrel@digi.lonestar.org (Keith Cantrell) asks:
How do you parse double quotes?

The answer is:  You can't do this with sendmail.  Sendmail assumes that
the headers and addresses are RFC822-compliant, so anything within
double quotes is treated as a single token.

>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?

The place to do this is not in sendmail, but in the gateway between
the DECnet world and the Internet world.  I just added support to my
DECnet mail gateway for rewrite rules based on regular expressions.
With this code and some help from the domain name server, it's not too
difficult to convert most DECnet mail addresses to domain addresses.

I'll announce in this newsgroup when the new version of the gateway
is ready for release.

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