Bugs item #643605, was opened at 2002-11-25 09:55 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=643605&group_id=103

Category: (un)subscribing Group: 2.1 beta Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Christopher Kolar (ckolar) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: RFC2882 and / in subscriber address

Initial Comment: Reproduced from the mailman-users list. Thanks to Bill for the followup.

--chris

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Majordomo would tell you the same thing but I agree that it is a legal address (we use similar addresses internally at work) and should be accepted. RFC2822 (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html) clearly allows it in the local-part (Section 3.4.1) as a dot-atom.

This should be fixed but in the mean time I don't think you are going to get it into mailman.

Bill W.

At 09:31 AM 11/25/2002 -0600, Christopher Kolar wrote:

Hello. I am trying to add a person to a mail list and having some problems. Their organization runs some sort of bestial mail system where the addresses are of the form:

    schmoe.j/bhs@dns.u99.k12.il.us

When I try to drop the address in through the mass subscribe screen I get the following message from Mailman:

    * Joe Schmoe -- Hostile address (illegal

characters)

My guess is that the / is getting parsed by Mm as an attempt to reference a file (a la majordomo). Is there a way to force the address onto the subscriber list? It is an actual valid address for delivery.

Thanks in advance,

--chris

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