[ mailman-Bugs-1100788 ] ^ and / are allowed charactes in email address

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Bugs item #1100788, was opened at 2005-01-12 11:51
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Group: 2.1 (stable)
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: reeg (reeg)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: ^ and / are allowed charactes in email address

Initial Comment:
According RFC 2822 (section 3.4.1 and 3.2.4) the
characters ^ and / are allowed in the localpart of an
email address. But in the file Mailman/Utils.py line
201 they are listed as _badchars.

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