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From: bob@acornrc.UUCP (Bob Weissman)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Problem with caret ('^') in addresses with uux
Keywords: uux, caret, what the hey?
Message-ID: <680@acornrc.UUCP>
Date: 27 Mar 88 22:51:01 GMT
Organization: Acorn Research Center, Palo Alto, CA
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Uux seems to treat the caret character '^' as some kind of command
character (same as '|' ?).  This causes problems when mailing to
addresses which contain this character, for example
Owner-Climbing^.pa@Xerox.COM.  (Xerox's distribution lists seem to have
'^' in their names.)

Does anyone know why uux handles '^' in this way?  Is there any software
which uses this "feature"?

(Sendmail likes to translate '^' into '!'.  So I disabled that
translation in sendmail.cf, and #ifdef-ed out the relevant code in uux,
only to have our next uucp neighbor reject mail to the above-mentioned
address.  Sigh.)

-- 
Bob Weissman
Internet:	bob@acornrc.uucp
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