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From: zemon@felix.UUCP (Art Zemon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Ultrix Mail question ($$ in username)
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Date: 23 Dec 87 00:22:53 GMT
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Boy am I embarrassed!

After I fired of that last posting, sendmail was good enough
to deliver an error message to me.  The test mail that I
sent with a $ in it and I had thought was properly processed
was not.  The bug still exists in Ultrix v2.0.  Sorry for
the confusion.

On a brighter note, alan@cunixc.columbia.edu thinks that
newer sendmails are rid of this bug:

    There was an old 4.2 version of sendmail which macro-expanded data as
    well as rules.  So, a $, which is the macro character, whould cause
    sendmail to macro expand it.  Mail to an id I have, DM$ALAN, would get
    rewritten to DMFri 18 Dec 87 12:00 ESTLAN (or something like that) since
    $A is the time macro (I think).  Newer (e.g. 4.3) sendmails have this bug
    fixed.  You can test it with:

       mail -v user\$name@hostname

    and see if sendmail macro-expands the $n or not.

    Alan Crosswell
    Columbia University

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