Path: utzoo!attcan!ncrcan!scocan!golem!david
From: david@golem.uucp (David J. Fiander)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Need HELP getting address past MMDF
Keywords: MMDF UUCP mail help
Message-ID: <1991Jun28.025732.714@golem.uucp>
Date: 28 Jun 91 02:57:32 GMT
References: <1991Jun20.131439.18385@sco.COM> <b7jttw.yg@wang.com> <1991Jun26.114204.3505@homer.UUCP>
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This is David J. Fiander again.  I'm not at work this time, 'though.

In article <1991Jun26.114204.3505@homer.UUCP> jko@homer.UUCP (Jonathan O'Neal) writes:
>In <b7jttw.yg@wang.com> fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald) writes:
>
>>> According to jko@homer.UUCP (Jonathan O'Neal)
>>[ :: is getting rewritten to !! in outgoing mail ]
>
>>david@sco.COM (David Fiander) writes:
>>[ switch from mail/execmail to ELM or MH ]
>
>>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.
>

That's strange, I don't see that behaviour.

>   Hmm.  I can't comment on that, but I followed David's advice, got ELM,
>and now my addresses go untouched.  Actually, ELM seems to use a different

Glad to hear that I'm not alone in this.

>addressing scheme:
>
>Elm:              Jonathan O'Neal <1234::foo@site.site>
>mail/execmail:    1234::foo@site.site (Jonathan O'Neal)
>
>I assume that both are correct within RFC822(?) guidelines, since both seem
>to work.  Anyway, Elm solved the problem (Thanks, David!).

Yup.  Elm is using the syntax "Phrase <who@where>", and mail is using
the syntax "who@where (comment)".  These are the two most common types
of addresses.

- David