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From: pdb@sei.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Mailer/Unix Problem
Message-ID: <2945@ci.sei.cmu.edu>
Date: 12 Jul 88 15:45:39 GMT
References: <88528173247.2060011f.GOLDMAN_S> <8237@ncoast.UUCP>
Reply-To: pdb@sei.cmu.edu (Patrick Barron)
Followup-To: comp.mail.sendmail
Organization: Software Engineering Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
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In article <8237@ncoast.UUCP> allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
>I haven't checked, but if sendmail on Unix systems invokes a shell to run the
>mailer, the same problem could occur before the message even leaves the
>system.

I seem to remember that older versions of sendmail would treat the "$" symbol
as part of a sendmail.cf macro, and would try to expand it as such.  The
end result was the same - part of the address would disappear.

Usenet followups redirected to comp.mail.sendmail.

--Pat.