Bugs item #517192, was opened at 2002-02-13 13:20 You can respond by visiting: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=517192&group_id=103

Category: mail delivery Group: 2.0.x

Status: Open Resolution: Out of Date Priority: 5 Submitted By: CrackMonkey (monkeymaster) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: 2.0.8 borks on dot in local part of addr

Initial Comment: In a mail address's local part (the part to the left of the at sign), it is perfectly valid to have periods. However, mailman stops reading the address right at the @, so that "mr.bad@pigdog.org" is shown as "mr.bad". this is disastrous for lists where only subscribers are allowed to post, since the system doesn't allow for exceptions that lack an @ and a FQDN.

Either allowing exceptions to be of a more forgiving format, or fixing the broken regex that truncates the mail addresses would solve my problem. I'm getting tired of moderating a legitimate user's posts, especially since the system won't even send the warnings to the correct address.

Comment By: CrackMonkey (monkeymaster) Date: 2002-04-29 15:21

Message: Logged In: YES user_id=76237

This happens even when I use python 2.2

Comment By: Barry Warsaw (bwarsaw) Date: 2002-04-27 09:34

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This is really a bug with earlier versions of Python, I believe. MM2.0.x uses the standard library function rfc822.parseaddr() to break and address into its realname + email constituent parts. Here are some examples:

% python Python 2.2.1 (#1, Apr 22 2002, 17:14:12) [GCC egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

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from rfc822 import parseaddr parseaddr('Mr. Bad mr.bad@pigdog.org') ('Mr. Bad', 'mr.bad@pigdog.org')

% python2.1 Python 2.1.3 (#1, Apr 22 2002, 18:17:38) [GCC egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)] on linux2 Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

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from rfc822 import parseaddr parseaddr('Mr. Bad mr.bad@pigdog.org') ('', 'Mr.Bad')

So this is clearly broken in Python 2.1.3, and works in Python 2.2.1. I'll look at backporting the fix to Python 2.1 in case there's ever a 2.1.4. But if you're using an earlier version of Python, this will still be broken. Consider upgrading to Python 2.2.1.

Comment By: CrackMonkey (monkeymaster) Date: 2002-04-26 12:54

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The bug turns out not to be when there is a period in the address, but in the plain text name. The mail address in question is:

Mr. Bad mr.bad@pigdog.org

I realized this when I saw people who had different text names from their e-mail addresses, as in:

Jr. Pickle picklejr@someplace.foo

This would show up as the mythical address "jr.pickle" in mailman, and things would b0rk.

Comment By: Barry Warsaw (bwarsaw) Date: 2002-03-14 11:18

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Either I need more information, or this problem is fixed in MM2.1. Quite often I uses test addresses like "barry.warsaw@<wherever>" and I've had no problems with it.

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