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From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: X.400 alias
Keywords: X.400 alias
Message-ID: <1991Feb1.193217.13186@DSI.COM>
Date: 1 Feb 91 19:32:17 GMT
References: <18192@ists.ists.ca>
Reply-To: syd@DSI.COM
Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc.  Huntingdon Valley, PA
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collins@ists.ists.ca (Mike Collins) writes:
>  I have an account on Omnet (a Sprint mail derivative). I would like to
>facilitate sending mail over to this "private" mail system from within
>elm. The addresses are in X.400 format eg:

>/dd.un=i.rubinstein/o=omnet/admd=telemail/c=us/@sprint.com

>We are running elm 2.2 PL14, and it chokes when I try to alias this
>address. Can anyone suggest a way?
Both 2.2 and 2.3 currently will choke on this address.  Reason: = is
our field delimiter (chosen not to conflict with X.400, but look
what happened anyway...)

A workaround suggested by one Elmer is to use another character
for the = sign in the alias.text file, and then edit the alias.data
file to change the character back to the = sign.
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Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP                   Elm Coordinator
Datacomp Systems, Inc.                          Voice: (215) 947-9900
syd@DSI.COM or dsinc!syd                        FAX:   (215) 938-0235