[Mailman-Users] Removing invalid list members

[Dave Sherohman]

Three days and no responses...  So there's no way to remove the address
described below?  The code that strips the second @ and everything after
it can't be bypassed?  You can't safely edit the database to delete it
directly without going through remove_members and the sanitizing code?
There's got to be *some* way to do it.

On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 12:37:16PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> Somehow, a user has gotten himself subscribed to one of my lists with
> an address of the form foo at bar@hotmail.com.  How do I get rid of this
> subscription?
> 
> The various web interface options just give an error that this address
> is not subscribed (even while showing it on the list of subscribers -
> might want to let the left hand know what the right hand is doing) and
> remove_members from the command line gives a traceback culminating in
> "Mailman.Errors.NotAMemberError: foo at bar", so I'd guess that some address
> sanity-checking is what's killing the attempt.
> 
> In case it matters, I'm running Mailman from Debian's 2.1.5-8sarge5
> package and this user is probably a carryover from an earlier version,
> as remove_member's traceback starts in OldStyleMemberships.py.  And
> here's the traceback, too, just to be complete:
> 
> --- cut here ---
> # remove_members my-list foo at bar@hotmail.com
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/sbin/remove_members", line 186, in ?
>     main()
>   File "/usr/sbin/remove_members", line 176, in main
>     admin_notif, userack)
>   File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 990, in ApprovedDeleteMember
>     self.removeMember(emailaddr)
>   File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/OldStyleMemberships.py", line 220, in removeMember
>     self.__assertIsMember(member)
>   File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/OldStyleMemberships.py", line 113, in __assertIsMember
>     raise Errors.NotAMemberError, member
> Mailman.Errors.NotAMemberError: foo at bar
> --- cut here ---

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