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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: % in path
Message-ID: <234BBH4@xds13.ferranti.com>
Date: 6 May 91 23:13:46 GMT
References: <1991May4.023832.2999@mccc.edu> <1991May06.141547.19963@chinet.chi.il.us>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <1991May06.141547.19963@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
> Smail 2.5 doesn't understand the % as a routing operator and just treats
> it as the local part of the address.  That is actually the correct
> thing to do until you hit the site where there are no other routing
> operators left.  In this case mccc.edu has to handle it.

What I do is have lmail (which is a simple enough program, and easy to change)
convert the % to an @ and feed it back through smail. No problemo. And
subdomains are already handled by smail 2.5.
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