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From: andy@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Andy S Poling)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: %site%site%site etc....
Summary: yes
Keywords: percent-hack, parsing, evaluating
Message-ID: <7630@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 21 Feb 91 18:42:56 GMT
References: <438@spool.mu.edu>
Followup-To: comp.mail.sendmail
Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF
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In article <438@spool.mu.edu> manager@spool.mu.edu (Steven Goodman) writes:
>
>	Might be a little stupid here but would like to know exactly
>	how my site should be disposing of mail received with this
>	addressing form.
>
>	user%sitename1%sitename2%sitename3%sitename4%sitename5@mysite
>
>	should I simply be sending it like this:
>
>	user%sitename1%sitename2%sitename3%sitename4@sitename5   ????

Without trying to start another religious war, I will say the following:

"Yes, that is the intent of that address format.  This format is commonly
known as the `percent-hack'."

-Andy

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