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

[jclark]

I did not apply the first patch, but the second patch provided fixed
the problem. The '@' symbol appears. I didn't escape it with the \@,
and it displays the whole line perfectly. Thank you, thank you, THANK
YOU!

Jeff Clark
On Feb 24, 2004, at 5:17 AM, Julian Field wrote:

> 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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>>>> Julian Field
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>>> --
>>> Jeffrey A. Clark
>>> Associate Director, CITS
>>> Director, Enterprise Systems
>>> Skidmore College
>>> 815 North Broadway
>>> Saratoga Springs, NY 12866-1632
>>> (518) 580-5929
>>> E-mail: jclark at skidmore.edu
>>
>>
>> --
>> Julian Field
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> <Message.pm.patch>--
> Julian Field
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> MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
>
> PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654
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Jeffrey A. Clark
Associate Director, CITS
Director, Enterprise Systems
Skidmore College
815 North Broadway
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866-1632
(518) 580-5929
E-mail: jclark at skidmore.edu