[Mailman-Users] forcing addition of "hostile address"

[Bill Waggoner]

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 at 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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