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From: jko@homer.UUCP (Jonathan O'Neal)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Need HELP getting address past MMDF
Summary: Can't get "valid" address past MMDF
Keywords: MMDF UUCP mail help
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.145124.6550@homer.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jun 91 14:51:24 GMT
Organization: SCS/Compute, Inc.
Lines: 29


   Greetings, netlanders, and especially you mail/MMDF gurus out there.
We have MMDF running under SCO Unix SV3.2.2, and it's giving me a headache.
No, not the usual one - I invested the hours and actually understand the
ins and outs of the channels, domains, and the tailor file.  What I can't
seem to do is this: send a message to a friend with a "weird" but valid
address.

   The address in question looks like this:
         "1234::username"@site.site.site
   If I quote the quotes so C-shell doesn't eat them, the address gets
inserted correctly into the message itself, but the rmail command in 
the outgoing UUCP command file says "rmail site.site.site!1234!!username".
Someone downstream doesn't like the "!!" and these messages get rejected
every time.  If I edit the /usr/spool/uucp/site/D.site### file (before it
goes out) so the rmail command says "site.site.site!1234::username", the
message gets transmitted successfully.

   QUESTION: Is there some simpler way to do this?  I assume the UUCP
channel program is massaging the address (even though it's in quotes),
but I can't figure out how to tell it not to.  And racing to the
/usr/spool/uucp/site directory after each message is getting old... ;-)

   Please post your reply here, as I cannot yet receive mail from the
outside world (duplicate domain name problem, registration pending).

   Thanks in advance.

   -jko