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From: pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: % in path
Message-ID: <1991May7.144508.13536@mccc.edu>
Date: 7 May 91 14:45:08 GMT
References: <1991May4.023832.2999@mccc.edu> <1991May06.141547.19963@chinet.chi.il.us>
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In article <1991May06.141547.19963@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
=In article <1991May4.023832.2999@mccc.edu> pjh@mccc.edu (Peter J. Holsberg) writes:
=>One of mccc.edu's leafs has an address
=>	user%hissite.UUCP@mccc.edu
=
=>but smail 2.5 barfs on replying to mail from him.  A couple of people
=>have suggested that it is the % that is confusing an "*printf(address)"
=>into thinking that the % is conversion string lead-in character, but
=>there's no such "*printf()" in all of the source.
=
=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.  I would
=suggest switching to smail3.x at least on your gateway machine since
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
         Aw, Les -- that's a lot more work, isn't it?

=it will handle the % as well as subdomain format (if you want to
=allow hissite.mcc.edu) without any extra trouble.

I can handle hissite.mccc.edu if it comes in a form that doesn't have
the "%" --  I think!

Pete
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