Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!ucivax!gateway From: jh@tut.fi (Juha Heinanen) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso.x400.gateway Subject: Re: Confirmed Reports and Return of Contents (was: The disjunct-RFC822 domain problem and DD.RFC-822) Message-ID: Date: 25 Mar 91 05:25:30 GMT References: <16MAR199114:37:11NTIN36@UK.AC.RUTHERFORD.GEC-B> Organization: Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland. Lines: 25 Approved: usenet@ICS.UCI.EDU Nntp-Posting-Host: funet.fi In-Reply-To: NTIN36@gec-b.rutherford.ac.UK's message of 16 Mar 91 14:49:22 GMT x-attn: jns ReSent-From: Jerry Sweet ReSent-To: ifip-gtwy@ICS.UCI.EDU in finland we have several X.400 sites that have multiple word organization names, like O=nokia data communications, where i send mail myself today. i personally don't have any problems with these kind of addresses including space, since i use (a) emacs mail interface and (2) pp sendmail program that both support quoted strings including spaces. however, i have heard alot of complaints from user that (a) are using elm or other Unix user agents and (b) versions of Unix sendmail programs that can't handle spaces in quotes. it looks like fixing the ua's would take a very long time because there are so many of them and their users are not computer hackers. one possible solution is to write an explicit mapping for each case where spaces appear in X.400 addresses, like from o=Gold 400 to gold-400. another solution is to define an automatic mapping from space to something else, eg to _. i don't care which one you pick, but please agree on something soon so that our users can get their work done. -- juha -- -- Juha Heinanen, FUNET, Finland, jh@funet.fi, +358 49 500958