Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!wang!fitz From: fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Need HELP getting address past MMDF Keywords: MMDF UUCP mail help Message-ID: Date: 25 Jun 91 00:39:31 GMT References: <1991Jun19.145124.6550@homer.UUCP> <1991Jun20.131439.18385@sco.COM> Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA Lines: 21 > According to jko@homer.UUCP (Jonathan O'Neal) [ :: is getting rewritten to !! in outgoing mail ] >> 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... ;-) david@sco.COM (David Fiander) writes: > The immediate answer to your problem is to switch to ELM (ouch) > or MH (ooch), or some other User agent which does not use > execmail. (I hate having to say to switch away from the stuff > we sold). It can't just be execmail, because we've seen the same thing happen with mail that was just being relayed through here, without ever coming in contact with a user interface. Mail arriving here had "::" in it, mail arriving at our neighbor had "!!" instead. --- Tom Fitzgerald Wang Labs fitz@wang.com 1-508-967-5278 Lowell MA, USA ...!uunet!wang!fitz