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From: bblue@crash.UUCP (Bill Blue)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers
Subject: Re: I hate smail
Message-ID: <649@crash.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Jan-87 21:42:58 EST
Article-I.D.: crash.649
Posted: Fri Jan  9 21:42:58 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 10-Jan-87 20:45:39 EST
References: <14227@amdcad.UUCP> <32@auspyr.UUCP> <14237@amdcad.UUCP> <4071@nsc.NSC.COM>
Reply-To: bblue@crash.UUCP (Bill Blue)
Organization: Crash TS, El Cajon, CA
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In article <4071@nsc.NSC.COM> tron@nsc.UUCP (Ronald S. Karr) writes:
>In article <14237@amdcad.UUCP> phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai) writes:
>>What I liked to do a lot of was to take an address like
>>fred@site.dec.com and ship it off to decwrl to handle with
>>decwrl!fred@site.dec.com.  Now smail says "ah, @ takes precendence".
>>How am I supposed to dump addresses on a smarter site like decwrl now?
>
>Decwrl seems to do this just fine if you use an address like:
>
>	decwrl!site.dec.com!fred

	fred@site.dec.com@decwrl

Will also work nicely.  Anytime you need to sneak syntax by smail
that would normally be altered, use the above example.

--Bill