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From: grahamt@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Graham S Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Elm and X400 addresses
Message-ID: <5306@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: 7 Jun 91 16:26:56 GMT
Organization: SPRU, Univ. of Sussex, Brighton, UK
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Gradually, X400-style addresses are becoming more common, and gateways
between X400 machines and the Internet (or the UK network JANET in my
case) are increasing our connectivity.

This is posing a few problems for elm users.  Mainly, this is due to the
predilection for X400 addresses to contain spaces.  Elm (or something
underlying it) helpfully inserts commas before each space, and no amount
of quoting seems to make them go away.  A solution, which may only be
partial, was found by replacing spaces with hyphens.  However, incoming
mail, too, causes problems.  Elm either appends such messages to the
previous message or, if this is the first message, gives an error
message saying 'This folder is corrupt - I can't read it.'  (The answer
to this is to find the original file and edit it to replace spaces with
hyphens.

I've also found that with mail from some otherwide OK X400 addresses
(those with no spaces) other header lines such as 'Subject:' don't get
recognised by Elm, even though they are themselves formatted normally -
probably some preceding line is messing things up.

Anyway, I think I read in the 'frequently asked questions' posting that
the spaces problem is known about.  Given that X400 is going to become
more prevalent, it might be an idea to make fixing this a fairly high
priority.

Cheers,

Graham
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Graham Thomas, SPRU, Mantell Building, U of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9RF, UK
Email: grahamt@syma.sussex.ac.uk   Phone: +44 273 678165   Fax: .. 685865