X.400 addresses

[Pete Alleman]

How do I get an X.400 address to pass an rmail/uucp link.
( /PN=User.Name/PRMD=Company/ADMD=TELEMAIL/C=US/@gateway.com )
The remote uuxqt sees the /'s in the argument and complains about
access denied to file/directory. Is there a standard way to escape
the /'s?

I'm running /\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.2.
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Pete Alleman
p...@ralph.lafayette.la.us

[Ian Lance Taylor]

p...@ralph.lafayette.la.us (Pete Alleman) writes:

>How do I get an X.400 address to pass an rmail/uucp link.
> ( /PN=User.Name/PRMD=Company/ADMD=TELEMAIL/C=US/@gateway.com )
>The remote uuxqt sees the /'s in the argument and complains about
>access denied to file/directory. Is there a standard way to escape
>the /'s?

For HDB UUCP, I don't think there is. You'll probably be OK if you
can modify the address so that it doesn't start with a /. In Taylor
UUCP, this sort of checking is a compile time option.
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[Willard Dawson]

p...@ralph.lafayette.la.us (Pete Alleman) writes:

>How do I get an X.400 address to pass an rmail/uucp link.
> ( /PN=User.Name/PRMD=Company/ADMD=TELEMAIL/C=US/@gateway.com )
>The remote uuxqt sees the /'s in the argument and complains about
>access denied to file/directory. Is there a standard way to escape
>the /'s?

>I'm running /\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.2.

Yes, but what software is the remote site running? I send mail to this type
of address quite often. I know that the current released version of Waffle,
for one, doesn't grok X.400 addresses.

>--
>Pete Alleman
> p...@ralph.lafayette.la.us
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Willard Dawson, BellSouth Advanced Networks, 1100 Johnson Ferry Road, Ste. 880
Atlanta, GA 30342, Voice: +1 404 303 2343, UUCP: gatech!vdbsan!dawson
Internet -> X.400: /G=W/S=DAWSON/O=BSAN/ADMD=BELLSOUTH/C=US/@sprint.com
Percent hack: dawson%vdb...@gatech.edu :: Standard disclaimer applies.

[Leslie Mikesell]

In article <45...@airs.com> i...@airs.com (Ian Lance Taylor) writes:
>p...@ralph.lafayette.la.us (Pete Alleman) writes:
>
>>How do I get an X.400 address to pass an rmail/uucp link.
>> ( /PN=User.Name/PRMD=Company/ADMD=TELEMAIL/C=US/@gateway.com )
>>The remote uuxqt sees the /'s in the argument and complains about
>>access denied to file/directory. Is there a standard way to escape
>>the /'s?
>
>For HDB UUCP, I don't think there is. You'll probably be OK if you
>can modify the address so that it doesn't start with a /. In Taylor
>UUCP, this sort of checking is a compile time option.

X.400 addresses allow imbedded spaces as well, which is bad news for
everyone who expects spaces as separators. If both the sending
and receiving machines are running smail3, they can use the uusmtp
transport that passes the addresses in the body of the file instead
of on the command line. There are some other advantages to this
since an unlimited number of addresses can be passed for a single
message and there are provisions for batching and compressing with
simple shell scripts.

Les Mikesell
l...@chinet.chi.il.us

[Pete Alleman]

In article <1992Jun25.142124.29530@vdbsan> dawson@vdbsan (Willard Dawson) writes:
>p...@ralph.lafayette.la.us (Pete Alleman) writes:
>
>>How do I get an X.400 address to pass an rmail/uucp link.
>> ( /PN=User.Name/PRMD=Company/ADMD=TELEMAIL/C=US/@gateway.com )
>>The remote uuxqt sees the /'s in the argument and complains about
>>access denied to file/directory. Is there a standard way to escape
>>the /'s?
>
>>I'm running /\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.2.
>
>Yes, but what software is the remote site running? I send mail to this type
>of address quite often. I know that the current released version of Waffle,
>for one, doesn't grok X.400 addresses.

The remote site is running SunOS with the standard rmail -> sendmail
configuration. The remote site is my MX forwarder on the Internet.

Sendmail is not the source of my problems. The remote uuxqt is refusing
to execute the rmail command when it sees what it thinks is an invalid
absolute pathname as an argument. Is there any way to get Sun's
rmail->sendmail to parse the To: field for a destination? I know that
sendmail -t will do what I want, but how do I do that thru rmail?

--
Pete Alleman
p...@ralph.lafayette.la.us

[far...@decus.ch]

In article <1992Jun24....@ralph.lafayette.la.us>, p...@ralph.lafayette.la.us (Pete Alleman) writes:
> Article-I.D.: ralph.1992Jun24.011418.3886
> Organization: Consulting
> Lines: 10

Try the following (the system I am now working on accept it (DECUS uucp V1.0)):

"company.telemail.us!user.name"

Jean-Pierre Farine

e-mail: far...@decus.ch
x.400: far...@grd.arcom.ch