I'm test a delivery to a list with more than a few addresses (not much more), to see whether a slightly drastic measure to deal with a subtle bug scales up.
In case you're interested, the problem was with addresses that contain a quote - there's only one instance on all my lists, someone with the last name "O'hara". The single quotes were being lost in the forked sendmail (and/or before that, in the forked deliver script command line).
The solution appears to be to apply repr to the addresses before exposing them to the shell. It works on the problematic addresses, and the few addresses i played with on some trial lists, but this is the first try with a middling sized list.
And incidentally, one of the near changes is to switch over to direct SMTP acces to the mail delivery agent on the current machine, rather than forking sendmail and exposing the addresses to the command line. John has already provided me with an SMTP class that he's been playing with, but i was shy about diving into that so near to releasing the new version.
Ken
On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, Ken Manheimer wrote:
I'm test a delivery to a list with more than a few addresses (not much more), to see whether a slightly drastic measure to deal with a subtle bug scales up.
It seems to be fine - i got a copy of the message, and received no bounces notices...
Ken
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