From: Bill Thompson (bill.thompson@GOODYEAR.COM)
Date: Wed Jul 02 2003 - 13:14:17 EDT
Barry,
I'm sorry if you were offended by my responce however there is no excuse
for not testing this. You don't need to know anything about "augusta
china@test.com", just make up an address. I tested both of these solutions
in about 30 seconds...
>mail -s "test" "dummy bill.thompson"@goodyear.com </etc/group
dummy... User unknown
/root/dead.letter... Saved message in /root/dead.letter
mail -s "test" "<dummy a327589@goodyear.com>" </etc/group
<dummy... There is a missing '<' character
<dummy... User unknown
bill.thompson@goodyear.com>... There is a missing '>' character.
<dummy, bill.thompson@goodyear.com>... There is a missing '<' character
bill.thompson@goodyear.com>... There is a missing '>' character.
<dummy, bill.thompson@goodyear.com>... There is a missing '<' character
<dummy... There is a missing '<' character
bill.thompson@goodyear.com>... There is a missing '>' character.
bill.thompson@goodyear.com>... There is a missing '>' character.
/root/dead.letter... Saved message in /root/dead.letter
<dummy, bill.thompson@goodyear.com>... There is a missing '<' character
bill.thompson@goodyear.com>... There is a missing '>' character.
As you can see the results are very valid. Neither works!
Bill Thompson
Sr UNIX Systems Administrator
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Barry Finkel" <b19141@ACHILLES.CTD.ANL.GOV>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.aix-l
To: <aix-l@Princeton.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 10:21 AM
Subject: Re: mail problem
> >>> On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Barry Finkel wrote:
> >>>
> >>> So, you *MIGHT* be able to use
> >>>
> >>> mail -s "test" "augusta china"@test.com </home/augusta/1.txt
>
> >> On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Ross Alexander wrote:
> >> Have you tried
> >>
> >> mail -s "test" "<augusta china@test.com>" </home/augusta/1.txt
> >>
> >> The <>'s *SHOULD* keep sendmail from treating the embedded blank as a
> >>separator.
>
>
> >A quick test proves that neither of these work (at least not on AIX
4.3.3)
> >
> >I'm all for new ways to do things, but please, try before you post.
> >
> >No offense intended, but do you guys try these commands before you post
> >them?
>
> I did not say that my solution would work; I wrote, "you MIGHT be able".
> I did not test because I have no idea if the address
>
> augusta china@test.com
>
> is a valid e-mail address or one that was sanitized for the posting.
> I would never have a userid portion of an e-mail address that contains
> a blank, and I know of no such address. I was not sure that any test I
> ran would give me valid results.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Barry S. Finkel
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