'@' symbol in "stored.xxxxx.message.txt" files

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Feb 24 10:17:09 GMT 2004


Oops, screw up in previous version of patch. Try this one instead.

At 09:44 24/02/2004, you wrote:
>This sounds like a Perl bug if it is producing different results on
>different platforms, OSs and versions.
>I'll rewrite the code so it is phrased differently.
>
>Please can you try this patch to Message.pm.
>
>At 18:51 23/02/2004, you wrote:
>>I am getting the behaviour regardless of which I do. Whether I escape
>>it or not (this was in my previous submissions to this list) the line
>>does not print.
>>
>>Jeff Clark
>>On Feb 23, 2004, at 9:14 AM, Julian Field wrote:
>>
>>>At 14:09 23/02/2004, you wrote:
>>>>At 13:55 23/02/2004, you wrote:
>>>>>Third request of hopefully a simple question to this list:
>>>>>
>>>>>We are running sendmail Version 8.11.7+Sun on a Solaris 8 V880,
>>>>>MailScanner-4.25-14. and perl, v5.6.1 built for sun4-solaris.
>>>>>
>>>>>I am trying to include an e-mail address in the body of the
>>>>>"stored.virus.message.txt" and "stored.filename.message.txt".
>>>>>
>>>>>When I include the '@' symbol in the text line, the whole line does
>>>>>not
>>>>>print. Any ideas? How do I print the '@' symbol in the files?
>>>>
>>>>The quick workaround is to use
>>>>         \@
>>>>instead of
>>>>         @
>>>>
>>>>But I'm going to take a look at the code as it should already do this
>>>>substitution for you.
>>>
>>>I have just found that a line containing no backslash works fine,
>>>while a
>>>line with a backslash doesn't print, which is understandable. So if I
>>>put
>>>in an email address like
>>>         helpdesk at ecs.soton.ac.uk
>>>it works fine.
>>>
>>>Are you getting the reverse behaviour?
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>>Director, Enterprise Systems
>>Skidmore College
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>
>
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