[Mailman-Users] Unable to purge corrupt address

[Chuq Von Rospach]

This gave me an idea, since I had a list with a binary email address  
(how? add_members of a directory instead of a file in the directory.  
oops).

Here's what I did:
	dumpdb config.db

	this gave me the "\x00\x0c\x....." version of the string.

I cut and pasted that into a quickie perl script:

	#! /usr/bin/perl
	print "\x00\x0c\x......."

	% foo > foo.out

I used that file with remove_members:

	% remove_members -f foo.out <listname>

and it removed the address for me just fine. By dumping the binary into  
a file and then using -f, it avoids running the binary through the  
shell, which is a Bad Thing, so remove_members works on it.



On Friday, March 14, 2003, at 06:01  AM, Dwight Ernest wrote:

> Thanks, Jon. This worked (when I chose a character other than "X"  
> which apparently had special meaning in the pickle!).
>
> Jon Carnes wrote:
>> The easiest way I've found to do this is to stop Mailman from running
>> and then use a hex editor to edit the binary directly (change the out  
>> of
>> range value to an standard Ascii value).  Note, that Mailman stores  
>> the
>> email names in several places within the database.
>> It would be great if someone would write a small script to parse  
>> through
>> the database and check all the email names... sigh, yet another thing  
>> on
>> my list.
>> Hope that is helpful,
>> Jon Carnes
>
>
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