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From: gorpong@ping.chi.il.us (Gordon C. Galligher)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: MH 6.7 From: attribute problems
Message-ID: <1991Jan8.014236.14999@ping.chi.il.us>
Date: 8 Jan 91 01:42:36 GMT
References: <1991Jan6.210926.9918@ping.chi.il.us> <9101070252.AA23659@bacchus.eng.umd.edu>
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In article <9101070252.AA23659@bacchus.eng.umd.edu> ziegast@ENG.UMD.EDU 
(Eric Ziegast) writes:
>Just a wild guess here, but what would happen if you took the "C." out of
>your signature or surrounded your signature with double quotes?
>
>	Signature: "Gordon C. Galligher"
>
>Unquoted periods have been blamed for messing up many address headers.
>It's also illegal to the RFC 822 spec for addresses.

I have tried both.  When using the double quotes, then the From is:
	From: "Gordon C. Galligher" <gorpong>
And removing the C. results in:
	From: Gordon Galligher <gorpong>
This works correctly on a Sun system using sendmail/smtp as the MTS, and
some other obvious changes in configuration (options SUN40 ...) but the
main stuff is still the same.  I used post -debug to see it, and on this
system it does <gorpong> and on the Sun it does <gorpong@host>.  Wierd.

		-- Gordon.
-- 
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gorpong@ping.chi.il.us    gorpong%ping@uu.psi.com   ...!uu.psi.com!ping!gorpong
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