[I'm setting replies to go to mailman-users]

On Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 02:54:49PM +0000, Marco Budde wrote:

When subscribing a local user address like "mbudde" or even "mbudde@local" I get this error message: "Bad/Invalid email address".

Why? This is a normal email address.

Understand the distinction between "normal" and "valid". You can send mail to a local user simply by specifying "user", however that's because the local MTA does some magic to figure out where it goes. Since mailman has historicly simply handed delivery off to a standard SMTP mail server for the actual delivery, it means that the addresses it gets need to be RFC-822 compliant.

I presume if you use "mbudde@domain.com", where "domain.com" is your domain, that it works fine? Mailman is simply being canonical, which IMHO is better than relying on magic to happen behind the scenes. For example, if you specified "mbudde", and then later changed the SMTP server, or moved the mailman installation to another host, the behavior may change.

Sean

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