email address will slashes

[Ciberous]

The mailing list login/(un)subscribe form does not
accept email addresses with slashes in the name. In
particular, the user has a LotusNotes email address
which contains slashes.

For example, an email address such as
<email address hidden> will not be
accepted by the form. It responds that the email
address is illegal.

[http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=948064&group_id=103&atid=100103]

[Bug Importer (bug-importer)]

I can confirm this bug on Mailman 2.1.4. Addresses with
slashes are rejected as hostile although they conform to
rfc822. Such addresses are also used on some systems to
deliver mail to subfolders, e.g.:

user+folder/subfolder@domain

[Litrium (litrium)]

This patch for 2.1.4 removes / as a bad character to enable
Lotus Notes compatibility.

# diff -u Utils.py.old Utils.py
--- Utils.py.old Wed Jun 9 20:37:06 2004
+++ Utils.py Wed Jun 9 20:36:58 2004
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@

 # TBD: what other characters should be disallowed?
-_badchars = re.compile(r'[][()<>|;^,/\200-\377]')
+_badchars = re.compile(r'[][()<>|;^,\200-\377]')

 def ValidateEmail(s):
     """Verify that the an email address isn't grossly evil."""