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From: n.margetic@ioe.lon.ac.uk (Nino Margetic)
Newsgroups: mail.uk-sendmail-workers,comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: uk-sendmail and SPAN
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.173357.5517@ioe.lon.ac.uk>
Date: 12 Jun 91 17:33:57 GMT
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Sender: teexnma@ioe.lon.ac.uk (Nino Margetic)
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In <7024.9106110946@rahman.earth.ox.ac.uk> keith@earth.ox.ac.uk (Keith Refson) writes:


>I have been unsuccessfully trying to send messages to the SPAN network
>via uk.ac.span-relay.    The problem (after fixing a bug the unix-niftp
>software which prevented us talking to it at all) is that the relay
>requires addresses in VMSese

>"site::user"@uk.ac.span-relay.

>Sendmail is stripping the quotation marks from the `user'
>which the relay requires to be quoted.  Thus all mail is bounced.  What is
>peculiar is that the quotation marks are retained in the "To:" field, but
>stripped from the JNT header.

>Is there any way to get these quotation marks through sendmail?  Or
>should I find another route to SPAN?  Any suggestions will be
>gratefully received!

>	Keith Refson

**** Yup, I ran into the same problem a year ago. The only thing that
worked for me was the Internet->SPAN gateway in States - a machine at
NASA centre. Unfortunately, at the moment, I can't remember the address
of this particular machine, but it was listed in the E-Mail Guide for
Janet available by NIFTP from (I belive EARN-Relay).
Hope this helps.

--Nino
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