On Fri, 1 May 1992 10:01:48 EDT "Richard Seifert, Jr." <MAINT@CLVM> said: > I am having a bit of a problem with error mail getting to the owner >of a list. The owner field of the list looks like > > Owner= [log in to unmask] The code that processes list header keywords translates anything not within double-quotes to upper case, ending the keyword value at the first blank encountered. This is the reason why you can supply keyword values in whatever case you want, and why you do not need to use any special separator (semicolon or whatever) between keyword/value pairs on the same line. Text within double quotes is kept 'as is', and may contain blanks; this is used to supply arbitrary 'Reply-To:' or 'Sender:' addresses, for instance. However, because the value may contain blanks, quoting is possible only if the code that acts on the keyword value is designed to support it. For instance, the code that deals with owners expects a blank-separated list of RFC822 addresses, and thus does not support quoted addresses. Even if you do not place any blank in the string, it will still not work because the quotes are preserved in the keyword value, in order to allow the code that uses the value to locate the end of the quoted string. > The problem is that foo.bar is an IBM workstation running AIX 3.1, the only brand of un*x I know which will not convert nonexistent all-caps userids to lower case. This means they will have a hard time communicating with users of systems where what one types at the keyboard generally gets translated to upper case. > Question: is there any way to have LISTSERV preserve the case of >the userid that the error mail is being sent to? The only way would be to create a list with that address as subscriber and refer to it in the owner field, or something similar. Eric