On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 09:43:57AM -0700, Duane L. wrote:
> 
> One of our customers is upset because he can't email his brother at
> his bigfoot address. The address has an ampersand in the username portion
> eg; DNB&[EMAIL PROTECTED]  
> 
> which qmail (1.03) apparently translates to "dnb^[EMAIL PROTECTED]"  and   
> the message is returned as undeliverable.  Of course this customer has to
> point out that the sister with the MSN account can send to it, with no
> problems. DOH!


I know for a fact that qmail can send to addresses with a & in them because
I once had a mailing list that sent them unquoted, backgrounded itself,
resent them because it did not complete, ad infinitem  until I caught it 
and fixed the quoting.  In a nutshell the **shell** was the issue,
not qmail.

cfm


> 
> I'm not necessarily trying to correct or work around the problem, but I
> wish I had an RFC I could quote that explains why this isn't working, and
> why MSN shouldn't deliver it either, except it is their nature to
> ignore/bend/break established protocols and procedures.
> 
> 
> Any insight would be greatly apreciated.
> 
> TIA
> Duane L         - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
> 
>                             

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Christopher F. Miller, Publisher                             [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MaineStreet Communications, Inc         208 Portland Road, Gray, ME  04039
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