I have never before seen an address with '&' in it, but now we have 'r&d.nylund@somewhere.com' on one of our lists. It is a problem, since the error log shows the followig when a message is posted to the list:
Jun 06 07:55:39 1998 post: Traceback (innermost last): post: File "/home/mailman/scripts/mailowner", line 43, in ? post: if not current_list.bounce_processing or not current_list.ScanMessage(msg): post: File "/home/mailman/Mailman/mm_bouncer.py", line 407, in ScanMessage post: self.RegisterBounce(who, msg) post: File "/home/mailman/Mailman/mm_bouncer.py", line 83, in RegisterBounce post: self.LogMsg("bounce", report + "first") post: File "/home/mailman/Mailman/maillist.py", line 570, in LogMsg post: logf.write("%s\n" % (msg % args)) post: TypeError : not enough arguments for format string
I have 1.0b4, but the subscription was made while we were running an earlier version. It's possible that the address found its way to the list through the admin's mass subscription.
Either mailman shouldn't allow such addresses to be subscribed, or then the post script needs fixing.
-- Janne
On Sat, Jun 06, 1998 at 02:45:15PM +0300, Janne Sinkkonen wrote:
I have never before seen an address with '&' in it, but now we have 'r&d.nylund@somewhere.com' on one of our lists. It is a problem, since the error log shows the followig when a message is posted to the list:
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I have 1.0b4, but the subscription was made while we were running an earlier version. It's possible that the address found its way to the list through the admin's mass subscription.
Either mailman shouldn't allow such addresses to be subscribed, or then the post script needs fixing.
I would have to look this one up, but if & is supposed to be valid in email addresses, we should probably try to support it, even though it's a special character in URLs, and will thus be a bit tricky to work around. I'll have to look this one up, and implement the right solution (anyone else is welcome to beat me to it :). Let's say I will make sure there's some sort of solution by b5. For now, I would suggest you remove the address from the list. The admin membership page may work for this, or you may need to fire up Python and remove them by hand:
import maillist m = maillist.MailList('whatever-list') m.members.remove('offending_address') m.Save()
Then exit the interpreter so the list will Unlock, or call m.Unlock().
If he's a digest member, use m.digest_members instead...
John
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