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From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Is that normal ? (using $ in recipient's address)
Keywords: $ bug
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.192619.11512@DSI.COM>
Date: 15 Mar 91 19:26:19 GMT
References: <18470@milton.u.washington.edu>
Reply-To: syd@DSI.COM
Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc.  Huntingdon Valley, PA
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wolf@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr (Christophe Wolfhugel) writes:
>I typed the recipient's address as indicated with the $ sign. When I
>precede the $ with a backslash everything is OK.
It is an old known bug of Elm that characters in the address that
are interpreted by the shell cause problems.  (GB09).
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