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From: tperala@ub.d.umn.edu (Tim Perala)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: long (and strange) alias expansion
Keywords: alias
Message-ID: <652@ub.d.umn.edu>
Date: 10 Jan 91 16:41:46 GMT
Organization: University of Minnesota, Duluth. Information Services.
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I was quite amazed that our sendmail could even digest the following
address, but it does and even delivers it.

</S=G.BUSH/OU=R06A/PRMD=USDA.FS.X400/ADMD=TELEMAIL/C=US/@SPRINT.COM> 

Now, such an address is certainly a candidate for aliasing, but 
alas, I cannot get it to work.

Here is a sample from the aliases.text file...

test = weird test = </S=G.BUSH/OU=R06A/PRMD=USDA.FS.X400/ADMD=TELEMAIL/C=US/@SPRINT.COM>

But here is what I get after running "newalias"...

% checkalias test
Expands to: US/@SPRINT.COM> (weird test = </S=G.BUSH/OU=R06A/PRMD=USDA.FS.X400/ADMD=TELEMAIL/C)

This is not correct.

I tried putting quotes around the full address, but that did not help.

Can anyone tell me ...

a) If it is possible to get such an address properly alias (elm2.3PL5)?

b) If it is possible, how does one do it?

Thanks much.

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Tim Perala (tperala@ub.d.umn.edu)
University of Minnesota, Duluth
Information Services
(218) 726-6122