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From: carl@CITHEX.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Mailer/Unix Problem
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Date: 5 Jul 88 23:23:35 GMT
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It seems I was a little hasty in concluding that the BSD mailer couldn't
be coerced into sending mail to an address like C$LYD@CITHEX.CALTECH.EDU.
I'd tried escaping the $ with one, then three backslashes, then given up.
It turns out that the trick is to escape the "$" with 5 (yes, five!)
backslashes.  E.g.,
	mail c\\\\\$lyd@cithex.caltech.edu < /dev/null
actually got the mail through.  And some people say VMS is cumbersome!

Sally Goldman:  Please let me know if this works for the UNIX users who
		were having trouble sending mail to your users.  Thanks.