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From: andrew@calvin.doc.ca (Andrew Patrick)
Subject: Re: Quoted addresses don't work
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References: <8284@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 1991 18:26:57 GMT

In article <8284@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> jss@greeble.Eng.Sun.COM (Josh Sirota) writes:

...
>This comes up because I've been trying to reach a friend through Sprint's
>e-mail service, which requires disgusting addresses like
>	/PN=yournamehere/O=organization/ADMD=TELEMAIL/C=US/@sprint.com


My fix is to enclose the address in "<>" brackets.  For example:

alias John_Doe </C=CANADA/ADMD=TELECOM.CANADA/ID=DOE.J/S=DOE/@nasamail.nasa.gov>

is a line in my .mushrc file to direct mail to the Envoy 100 X.400
service here in Canada.  If I was to specify the address on the Unix
command line, I would also quote it:

mush "</C=CANADA/ADMD=TELECOM.CANADA/ID=DOE.J/S=DOE/@nasamail.nasa.gov>"
-- 
Andrew Patrick, Ph.D.       Department of Communications, Ottawa, CANADA
andrew@calvin.doc.CA
                    "The interface IS the program."