RFC2882 and / in subscriber address

[Ckolar]

Reproduced from the mailman-users list. Thanks to Bill
for the followup.

--chris

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Majordomo would tell you the same thing but I agree
that it is a legal address (we use similar addresses
internally at work) and should be accepted. RFC2822
(http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html) clearly allows
it in the local-part (Section 3.4.1) as a dot-atom.

This should be fixed but in the mean time I don't think
you are going to get it into mailman.

Bill W.

At 09:31 AM 11/25/2002 -0600, Christopher Kolar wrote:

Hello. I am trying to add a person to a mail list and
having some problems. Their organization runs some
sort of bestial mail system where the addresses are of
the form:

        <email address hidden>

When I try to drop the address in through the mass
subscribe screen I get the following message from Mailman:

        * Joe Schmoe -- Hostile address (illegal
characters)

My guess is that the / is getting parsed by Mm as an
attempt to reference a file (a la majordomo). Is there
a way to force the address onto the subscriber list?
It is an actual valid address for delivery.

Thanks in advance,

--chris

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[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

I agree that any RFC 2822 legal address should be allowed by
Mailman. This won't get fixed for MM2.1, but I'll keep it
open so we can address it in MM3.0.

[Ckolar (ckolar)]

Just ran into this again with 2.1.1 and was checking in to
see how it is going. I have no idea what these people are
doing running some goofy mail system off their dns. I think
it is relaying it to a mac-based mail system with servers
local in every school. I replaced one of those systems
once. Anyway, here's to 3.0. --chris