A mail message with the following To: line generated this error...

"To: :"

(The following message has been "somewhat" sanitized)

-Jeff

-----Original Message----- From: Mail Delivery Subsystem [mailto:Postmaster@rikers.streek.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 7:21 AM To: xxx-request@xxx.com Subject: Returned mail: unknown mailer error 1

The original message was received at Wed, 7 Jul 1999 07:20:17 -0500 from maillist@xxx.xxx.com [xxx.xx.xx.xx]

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- "|/home/mailman/MM/mail/wrapper post xxx" (expanded from: <xxx@xxx.xxx.com>)

----- Transcript of session follows ----- Traceback (innermost last): File "/home/mailman/MM/scripts/post", line 73, in ? mlist.Post(msg, approved=fromusenet) File "/home/mailman/MM/Mailman/MailList.py", line 1243, in Post if (self.require_explicit_destination and File "/home/mailman/MM/Mailman/MailList.py", line 1081, in HasExplicitDest for recip in msg.getaddrlist('to') + msg.getaddrlist('cc'): File "/home/mailman/MM/Mailman/pythonlib/rfc822.py", line 320, in getaddrlist return a.getaddrlist() File "/home/mailman/MM/Mailman/pythonlib/rfc822.py", line 496, in getaddrlist ad = self.getaddress() File "/home/mailman/MM/Mailman/pythonlib/rfc822.py", line 533, in getaddress if self.field[self.pos] == ';': IndexError: string index out of range 554 "|/home/mailman/MM/mail/wrapper post xxx"... unknown mailer error 1