[Mailman-Users] how to remove address with bad ASCII

[Barry Warsaw]

On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 02:06, Richard M. Pavonarius wrote:
> I'm having trouble removing from a mailing list a few addresses that 
> contain non-ASCII characters. In the error message I'm receiving from 
> Postfix, the character shows up as a question mark, but it's not really a 
> question mark. I can't remove the address from the web interface because 
> the offending character can't be encoded into a URL (or something like that.)
> 
> Is there a way I can remove the addresses directly from the Mailman DB, 
> perhaps via Python or one of the scripts in /home/mailman/bin?
> 
> I'm using version 2.0.13+J3
> 
> Example:
> 
> <******@jc-21.ac.jp?>: bad host/domain syntax: "jc-21.ac.jp?"

A while back, I posted a recipe that used a regular expression and
find_members to locate offending email addresses.  Barring that, I'd say
manual surgery via bin/withlist will be the answer.

-Barry