[Mailman-Users] removing members with non-standard characters

Anne Ramey anne.ramey at ncmail.net
Fri Dec 15 19:44:45 CET 2006


Mark Sapiro wrote:
> Anne Ramey wrote:
>   
>> Mark Sapiro wrote:
>>     
>>> If the bad addresses don't appear in list_members (I don't know why
>>> they wouldn't, but maybe they just appear with the control characters
>>> that you don't see and thus look OK) you can do
>>>
>>>   bin/list_members listname | bin/synch_members -f - -n listname
>>>   
>>>       
>> This says:
>> ./list_members listname | ./sync_members -f - -n listname
>> Dry run mode
>> Invalid :  brianv at ncccs.cc.nc.us
>> You must fix the preceding invalid addresses first.
>> So I guess no luck there.
>>     
>
> So the address does appear in the list_members output.
>
> Try this one
>
>   bin/list_members -i listname | bin/remove_members -f - -n listname
>
> If that doesn't work, see <http://veenet.value.net/~msapiro/scripts/>
> or <http://fog.ccsf.edu/~msapiro/scripts/> for a link to an
> experimental withlist script that should do it.
>
>   
Miracle of miracles, this appears to have worked.  Thank you so much.

Anne


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