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From: rpcfod@uarthur.UUCP (Robert Patt-Corner)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Embedded Spaces in Usernames
Keywords: SPACES AllInOne WIN/TCP MAILBUS
Message-ID: <54@uarthur.UUCP>
Date: 14 Feb 91 19:35:09 GMT
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Apologies if this has come up often ...

We're experimenting with an SMTP<===>Digital Mailbus gateway from WIN/TCP
to move mail back and forth from the Internet to a local All-In-One
system.  Our All-In-One has a username convention of 

FirstName<SPACE>Lastname

which is quite common in the A1 world.  Our Sun sendmail is very unhappy with the embedded space in the username -- obvious efforts like enclosing that
portion of the address in single or double quotes fail.

Does anyone out there have experience with this, a portion of a SENDMAIL
script that deals with embedded spaces, or the like?  If so, please let me
know.

The syntax for the "whole" address, for example is:

   Robert Patt-Corner%A1.MROUTER@MailBusGatewayHost

Obviously something has to be done with the "Robert Patt-Corner" portion
to make this go.

Thanks ...