From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 09:33:35 +0100 From: forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk Subject: [9fans] user name with dot for mail Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9960c844-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Message-ID: <19990701083335.j_ztBE0BGjltbccIqFaUutfpl7R2XGllPN0SU11Tdj8@z> i've never had problems exchanging mail with people with dotted names. if you're trying to rewrite a specific address in /mail/lib/rewrite and need to match a literal . with the regular expression, just escape it with \ okamoto\.0@earth\.cias\.osakafu-u\.ac\.jp