On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 03:54:10PM +0200, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > I tried to set this in .sbuildrc as (do I need to escape the @?): > $mailfrom = 'm68k Source Builder <sbu...@garkin.steigies.net>';
No. The \@ construct is only necessary to avoid perl from trying to interpret it as the start of the name of an array variable which it must interpolate. It will only do this in interpolated strings, which, as in shell, are strings between double quotes (") rather than single quotes ('). Regards, -- It is easy to love a country that is famous for chocolate and beer -- Barack Obama, speaking in Brussels, Belgium, 2014-03-26