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] - > > -- Christopher F. Miller, Publisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] MaineStreet Communications, Inc 208 Portland Road, Gray, ME 04039 1.207.657.5078 http://www.maine.com/ Database publishing, e-commerce, office/internet integration, Debian linux.
