Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!esosun!net1!sdcsvax!jack!man!crash!bblue 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 Lines: 17 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