[Mailman-Users] how to remove badly formed email address from list

Barry A. Warsaw barry at digicool.com
Sat Mar 3 06:14:30 CET 2001


>>>>> "RW" == Rachel Willmer <rachel at intertrader.com> writes:

    RW> I've got a user on one of my lists who's subscribed himself
    RW> with the email address with a form of "myname at home"@isp.co.uk.

    RW> Of course, this address is completely undeliverable, and every
    RW> mail out to the list bounces. So I'd like to remove this
    RW> guy. But I can't figure out how!

    RW> If I deselect him from the web interface, mailman complains
    RW> that the user doesn't exist. Same if I try it via the mail
    RW> interface.

    RW> I've tried every combination of quotes and escapes I can think
    RW> of.

    RW> So any ideas, anyone?

This is definitely a bug in Mailman.  It will be fixed in 2.1.  Until
then, using the command line interface is the only way to remove the
address.

-Barry




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