How do I mail from an Internet to a uucp site?
Arthur S. Kamlet
ask at cbnews.ATT.COM
Thu Sep 14 07:25:41 AEST 1989
In article <726 at larry.sal.wisc.edu> jwp at larry.sal.wisc.edu (Jeffrey W Percival) writes:
>I'm sitting here at my Ultrix Internet site and I get mail
>from a!b!user at foo.edu...
>
>How do I mail back to this user? I have not found the right combo
>of backslashes, percents, and so on to please my mailer.
It's unfortunate that some system mailer has
mixed "!" and "@" addresses. That's major trouble.
What you need to do is figure out how to properly parse that address
into either a "!" or "% @" type address, and then parse it yourself.
I prefer "!" addressing, so I might guess
a!b!user at foo.edu
should be parsed as
foo.edu!a!b!user
and that's a perfectly good looking mail address. Unfortunately,
it could be completely wrong. The correct parse might have been
a!b!foo.edu!user
or even something else. Whenever you find mixed "!" and "@" you
must make a good educated guess, and stick with all of one type.
--
Art Kamlet a_s_kamlet at att.com AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
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