[Bug 680447] Re: parts of recipients adresses between square brackets in are interpreted as seperate addresses

[Mark Sapiro]

There's not much Mailman can easily do about this. The issue is in the
Python email library. email.utils.getaddresses() is used by Mailman to
get a list of addresses and the length of that list is used as the
number of recipients. getaddresses() treats the brackets as a kind of
delimiter. Thus, email.utils.getaddresses(['jefke
[jefke2 at foo.example.net]']) returns this list of (name, address) tuples
[('', 'jefke'), ('', ''), ('', 'jefke2 at foo.example.net'), ('', '')] of
length 4 instead of the list [('jefke', 'jefke2 at foo.example.net')] of
length 1 that you expect.

Escaping the brackets as you suggest changes the result only in that a
'\' is appended to the jefke2 at foo.example.net address returned in the
third tuple.

** Changed in: mailman
   Importance: Undecided => Low

** Changed in: mailman
       Status: New => Won't Fix

** Changed in: mailman
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Mark Sapiro (msapiro)

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Title:
  parts of recipients adresses between square brackets in  are interpreted as seperate addresses