Subject: Multiple "@"'s in address won't mail correctly

From: Jeff Nicolich <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 1995 20:22:05 +0200

Hi,

Can someone help me a problem I have sending mail to an MCI address via
PINE? 

The address is:

@gatekeeper.mcimail.com:sn=name%g=first%o=cs_first_boston%dda
=id=[email-masked]
(one line)

If I type the address in the appropriate field PINE interprets each "@"
as a seperate address:

To: Name <@mcimail.com, @CSFBG, @OU1=IS, @O=CS_First_Boston,
     @G=firstname:S=Name@S=Name>

What can I do to correct this?

Thanks.

Jeff

[email-masked]

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From: Andy Behrens <andyb@leda>
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 1995 13:21:37 -0400

> =id=[email-masked]

The first part of this address ("@gatekeeper.mcimail.com:") indicates that
the message should be routed via 'gatekeeper'.  This is an obsolete way of
specifying a mailing address.  It is permitted by the standard, but it is
rarely seen and its use is explicitly discouraged. 

If you leave off the routing prefix, you get

    sn=name%g=first%o=cs_first_boston%dda=id=[email-masked]

which, though ugly, should be accepted by Pine.

Andy

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Andy Behrens			       <[email-masked]>
P.O. Box 116, South Strafford, Vermont 05070
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