Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!andante!mit-eddie!bbn!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!sei!pdb 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 Lines: 12 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.