Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!newcastle.ac.uk!asjl
From: asjl@newcastle.ac.uk (Andy Linton)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: elm 2.1PL1 - general comments
Message-ID: <4038@cheviot.newcastle.ac.uk>
Date: 22 Dec 88 11:31:57 GMT
References: <79@titania.warwick.ac.uk>
Reply-To: asjl@cheviot (Andy Linton)
Organization: Computing Laboratory, U of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK NE17RU
Lines: 52

In article <79@titania.warwick.ac.uk> cudcv@warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon) writes:
>Also if the message is from e.g.  `R.J.McMahon', the default will be `=r',
>couldn't this be `=r.j.mcmahon' ?

This is important - names with '_' should be discarded as they will cause
X400 problems later. Names like `R.J.McMahon' will become more prevalent with
the advent of X400 to RFC822 (and Grey Book mail in the UK) gateways.

Simple patch follows:-
*** reply.c.orig	Tue Dec  6 09:46:47 1988
--- reply.c	Wed Dec  7 17:35:52 1988
***************
*** 418,424
  	  for (i=loc; single_address[i] != '!' && i > -1; i--)
  	      if (single_address[i] == '%' || 
  	          single_address[i] == ':' ||
- 	          single_address[i] == '.' ||	/* no domains */
  		  single_address[i] == '@') loc = i-1;
  	
  	  if (i < 0 || single_address[i] == '!') i++;

--- 418,423 -----
  	  for (i=loc; single_address[i] != '!' && i > -1; i--)
  	      if (single_address[i] == '%' || 
  	          single_address[i] == ':' ||
  		  single_address[i] == '@') loc = i-1;
  	
  	  if (i < 0 || single_address[i] == '!') i++;
***************
*** 438,445
  
  	  loc = strlen(single_address)-1; 	/* last char */
  
! 	  for (i = loc; single_address[i] != '!' && single_address[i] != '.' 
! 	       && i > -1; i--)
  	     if (trans_to_lowercase)
  	       name[index++] = tolower(single_address[i]);
  	     else

--- 437,443 -----
  
  	  loc = strlen(single_address)-1; 	/* last char */
  
! 	  for (i = loc; single_address[i] != '!' && i > -1; i--)
  	     if (trans_to_lowercase)
  	       name[index++] = tolower(single_address[i]);
  	     else

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