[Info-vax] login information capture

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

Bill Gunshannon <bill at server3.cs.scranton.edu> wrote:
> In article <le32mj$r9b$2 at speranza.aioe.org>,
>        glen herrmannsfeldt <gah at ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:
>> Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:

(snip)

>>> Double-quote the SMTP email address specification in that MAIL command, 
>>> or the @ probably won't produce the results you expect.
 
>> It has been many years, but I remember cases where you needed to
>> triple quote them.
 
> Now that brings up old nightmares!!

I seem to remember that it was different if you typed them
in on a command line, or put them into a file. 

That was when our VAX didn't have SMTP access, but you could
forward through another DECnet host that did, with a special
form of address. And it needed the triple quotes.

-- glen