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From: bmyers@garnet.berkeley.edu (Brian Myers)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: x400 addresses and the UNIX mail program
Summary: can't get them to work
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Date: 31 Aug 90 07:38:54 GMT
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I'm trying to send mail from a UNIX system on Bitnet to somebody on 
a system that uses x400 address formats.  The address I'm sending to
looks something like this:

	/C=US/STUFF/MORESTUFF/YETMORE/@SPRINT.COM

But no matter what I do, if I put that address after the "mail" command
I end up with a "no such file" error message.  Apparently those slashes
get interpreted as directory delimiters.  I've tried quotation marks,
aliases, and backslashes in various combinations with no luck--always
the same message.  How do I get mail to treat that string very literally,
without thinking I've written a file path?

Brian
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