[Mailman-Users] strange problem

[Bruce Harrison]

That is true.  I've seen it with 2 different users and 2 different lists.  I can't reproduce it reliabley either.  At this point I'm looking for ideas on where to look for data, etc.

Bruce
utmOITS

On Mar 13, 2013, at 6:34 PM, "Mark Sapiro" <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:

> Bruce Harrison wrote:
> 
>> All of a sudden it seems that mailman is adding an address to the CC field.  It's a bad address, of the form xxxxxx at mailman.utm.edu (this is our mailman box). 
>> It's happened to a couple of people, posting to different lists.  It's normally a first name like Thomas at mailman.utm.edu
> 
> So this only occurs with some posts and is not always the same address?
> 
> Is the poster doing something like
> 
> Cc: Thomas, Bill <bt at example.com>
> 
> which is really two addresses, the local address Thomas and
> bt at example.com, and then the MTA qualifies the local address by adding
> the local domain.
> 
> (The correct form of the above would be
> 
> Cc: "Thomas, Bill" <bt at example.com>
> 
> or
> 
> Cc: Thomas\, Bill <bt at example.com>
> )
> 
> -- 
> Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
> San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
> 
>