Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!pa.dec.com!hollie.rdg.dec.com!jch From: jch@dyfed.rdg.dec.com (John Haxby) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: Embedded Spaces in Usernames Keywords: SPACES AllInOne WIN/TCP MAILBUS Message-ID: <1991Feb18.133435.14728@hollie.rdg.dec.com> Date: 18 Feb 91 13:34:35 GMT References: <54@uarthur.UUCP> Sender: news@hollie.rdg.dec.com (Mr News) Reply-To: jch@dyfed.rdg.dec.com (John Haxby) Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 24 It is quite reasonable to put parts of the address that have spaces in them in quotes, so, in your example, Robert Patt-Corner%A1.MROUTER@MailBusGatewayHost becomes "Robert Patt-Corner"%A1.MROUTER@MailBusGatewayHost although getting the quotes in place without support from the gateway might be a little tricky. Where the quoting falls flat on its face, however, is when you try to use something like UCB mail that doesn't believe in quoted atoms: in this case, the address is split into "Robert and Patt-Corner"%A1.MROUTER@MailBusGatewayHost which sendmail takes a dim view to (unbalanced "s, it says). There are a selection of ways to get around this, the best ones involve throwing UCB mail away and using MH :-) which does believe in quoted atoms. Another solution involves using an undocumented feature of Message Router--which I don't think I should tell you about, sorry. ULTRIX Mail Connection (V1.1) which is supplied by us (Digital) chooses to quote atoms with spaces in them, at cost of not working with UCB mail--a possible future product may fix this. [Personally, I think UMC is far better than the WIN/TCP product, but then I wrote it!] -- John Haxby, Definitively Wrong. Digital Reading, England <...!ukc!wessex!jch>