9fans archive / 1999 / 07 / 2 / prev next From: forsyth@cal... forsyth@cal... Subject: [9fans] user name with dot for mail Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 09:33:35 BST 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