Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ariadne!theseas!ntua.gr!zvr From: zvr@ntua.gr (Alexios Zavras) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Re: long (and strange) alias expansion Keywords: alias Message-ID: <1254@theseas.ntua.gr> Date: 11 Jan 91 10:17:23 GMT References: <652@ub.d.umn.edu> <1991Jan10.182125.16188@DSI.COM> Sender: news@theseas.ntua.gr Reply-To: zvr@ntua.gr Organization: National Technical University of Athens, Greece Lines: 23 In article <1991Jan10.182125.16188@DSI.COM>, syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein) writes: > tperala@ub.d.umn.edu (Tim Perala) writes: > > > Its an X.400 address > Yup, current Elm 2.3 does not handle that address due to the = signs > also being our delimiter (gee we switched from : to = due to X.400, now > we have to do something else.) 2.4 is planned to have a method > of escaping/quoting the address. You'll have to wait for 2.4 at present. Alternatively, you could switch to using the `|' character as a demiliter. Another two-line patch to the alias code... :-) I *think* that no addressing scheme uses `|' (at least I haven't seen any). But of course, escaping/quoting is better... -- zvr -- +---------------------------+ Alexios Zavras (-zvr-) | H eytyxia den exei enoxes | zvr@theseas.ntua.gr +-----------------------zvr-+ zvr%theseas.ntua.gr@ariadne.csi.forth.gr "Il faut vivre comme on pense, sinon tot ou tard, on finit par penser comme on a vecu"