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From: eric@grkermi.UUCP (Eric N. Starkman)
Newsgroups: net.mail,net.mail.headers
Subject: Re: Handling %'s and forwarding mail
Message-ID: <487@grkermi.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 1-Jul-85 09:17:19 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  1 09:17:19 1985
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Summary: 

In article <226@harvard.ARPA> kevin@harvard.ARPA (Kevin Crowston) writes:
>If I get an address with %'s (e.g. xyz%cshost.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa)
>what should I do with it?
>
>1)  call up csnet-relay and say
>	RCPT TO:
>2)  call up csnet-relay and say
>	RCPT TO:<@csnet-relay.arpa:xyz@cshost.csnet>
>
>3)  something else

Call up csnet-relay and say
	RCPT TO:

Though both of the things you have above *should* work properly anyway.
>
>What if I wanted to send all of my mail by forwarding it to a
>local "smart" machine with a decent mailer and letting it do
>all of the delivery?  E.g. xyz is the smart machine; do I say
>
>	RCPT TO:<@xyz.arpa:person1@site1.arpa,person2@site2.arpa>
You should use a separate RCPT TO: line for each person to receive the
message.
	RCPT TO:
	RCPT TO:
You don't need to put the @xyz thing in...after all, XYZ knows its own name.

					-Eric Starkman
ARPA: starkman@athena.MIT.EDU 
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