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From: s30986u@kaira.hut.fi (Martin Helin)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Problem with X.400 address
Message-ID: <1991Apr29.073947.5980@santra.uucp>
Date: 29 Apr 91 07:39:47 GMT
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leilabd@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Leila Burrell-Davis) writes:
>I'm think this may have come up before, but I can't remember what the
>answer was. Sorry.

It's possible that I asked the same question also here but contacted
the ELM support group as well. Their answer and my experiences combined :

>Can anyone suggest how elm can be persuaded to pass the address on,
>spaces and all?

- nobody has been able to show me how to do it so far (any combination
  of " or ' have failed, for example)

- somebody suggested that the use of spaces in the organization
  field (for example) conforms to some standard so it's basicly
  ELM which has to be improved

- the ELM support says that there will be no correction to this
  problem before the version 2.4 [which is in beta phase, I THINK]
  comes out (in the autumn) (I'm not sure whether it will be corrected
  in the first version of maybe even later)

- some organizations accept the use of underscore or hyphen instead of
  a space, so you can always try ...

I hope I got everything right.

There is also a problem with X.400 addresses and the ELM alias
mechanism : you may use slashes (/) and equals (=) in the address
after the m (Mail) command but these cannot be included in an alias.
If you make the alias by editing the aliases.text file it will be
accepted but if I remember right it isn't accepted if you use the
a (alias) m (make a new alias) commands.

				Martin
 
  
Martin Helin	Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
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X.400 : G=Martin S=Helin O=hut OU1=kaira PRMD=inet ADMD=fumail CO=fi