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From: peirce@gumby.cc.wmich.edu (Leonard Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: How do you parse double quotes?
Message-ID: <1990Jul19.132703.13300@gumby.cc.wmich.edu>
Date: 19 Jul 90 13:27:03 GMT
References: <798@digi.lonestar.org> <1990Jul18.170636.8340@cs.utk.edu>
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In article <1990Jul18.170636.8340@cs.utk.edu> moore@cs.utk.edu (Keith Moore) writes:
>In article <798@digi.lonestar.org> kcantrel@digi.lonestar.org (Keith Cantrell) asks:
>>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.

It sounds like the problem could be /usr/etc/mail11dv3.  It's not stripping
off the double quotes from mail coming from the VMS side (which must be
addressed ULTRIXNODE::"user@host.domain".  It leaves the quotes on, sendmail
treats everything inside it as one token and does some funny things with it.

mail11dv3 used to work ok but it was broken for ULTRIX 3.0.  I got a patched
copy from someone at DEC that worked fine.  It was supposed to be fixed in
3.1 but wasn't.  Fortunately, the 3.0 version still worked.

If anyone needs a copy of mail11dv3, let me know.
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