Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!VAXC.STEVENS-TECH.EDU!GOLDMAN_S From: GOLDMAN_S@VAXC.STEVENS-TECH.EDU (SALLY D. GOLDMAN) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: Mailer/Unix Problem Message-ID: <8868102315.21200a29.GOLDMAN_S> Date: 8 Jul 88 15:23:14 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 35 >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. Yes, it is true that the BSD mailer may be convinced to send to the a username with a $ imbedded in it. However, it is real difficult for people to know how many UNIX machines a mail message will pass before reaching it's destination. Also, it is difficult to disseminate information regarding special rules in mailing to a site. Sally Goldman Systems Programmer Stevens Institute of Technology E-Mail: INTERNET: GOLDMAN_S@VAXC.STEVENS-TECH.EDU BITNET: GOLDMAN_S@SITVXC CCNET: SITVXC::GOLDMAN_S USMail: Computer Center ATT: 201-420-5472 Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, NJ 07030 ------------