On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Duane L. wrote:
>
> One of our customers is upset because he can't email his brother at
> his bigfoot address. The address has an ampersand in the username portion
> eg; DNB&[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> which qmail (1.03) apparently translates to "dnb^[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and
This looks like it is passing through the Obtuse smtpd program. That
will escape strange characters (it's own definition of strange) with
the hex code. As to where the obtuse smtpd is in the chain of mail
from your customer to his brother remains to be seen.
--
Regards
Peter
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