[Mailman-Users] Email rejected with un-quoted From with a dot

[Bill Moseley]

Anyone else seen this issue before?


On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 07:51:24PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote:
> On an old Debian Woody machine running mailmain 2.0.11 Mailman rejects
> mail with an un-quoted name part that includes a dot.
> 
>     From: Foo B. Baz <foo at invalid.com>
> 
> Mailmain then reports:  post from foob.bar requires approval.  While
> these work fine:
> 
>     From: "Foo B. Bar" <foo at invalid.com>
>     From: Foo Barr <foo at invalid.com>
> 
> I'm sure I've seen this mentioned someplace before but not having luck
> finding it now.
> 
> Can anyone point me to info on this.  It would be nice to get a patch
> until the machine can be upgraded to Sarge.

-- 
Bill Moseley
moseley at hank.org