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From: wolf@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr (Christophe Wolfhugel)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Is that normal ? (using $ in recipient's address)
Keywords: $ bug
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Date: 15 Mar 91 16:33:47 GMT
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Organization: INSA Departement Informatique, Lyon, France
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Is ELM (2.3 PL11) supposed to interpret the $ sign when sending mail?
I did not call '$ elm $$$0@...' but loaded first elm and then choose
option m to send a mail.

I typed the recipient's address as indicated with the $ sign. When I
precede the $ with a backslash everything is OK.

Second case a user just told me for about 10 seconds: he called elm using
'$ elm \$\$\$0@...' and it seems that thus the address gets interpreted
again (a call 'elm $$$0@' would be refused by the shell).

If this is supposed to be normal function of elm, may I suggest that
elm adds necessary stuff so that $ does not get replaced after, as
$ is not a special character reffering to the RFC's.

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