Re: [cobalt-developers] sendmail

[Tom Scanlan <tscanlan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What happens when you do a:

/usr/lib/sendmail -bv address

where address is your hyphenated perl-produced address?
 sendmail -bv verifies the validity of the address arguments.  Tool around
until sendmail says it like the address.

-Tom Scanlan
(732) 254-7901
openreach.com

cLive hoLLoway wrote:

> hi all,
>
> anyone got any ideas why sendmail doesn't like e-mail addresses with
> hyphens in?
>
> We get the message "user unknown" when piping from a perl script to it.
> Otherwise it works fine?!?
>
> Are we missing something? Escape hyphens? Enclose in quotes? thoughts???
>
> cLive ;-)
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