[Mailman-Developers] FW: Returned mail: unknown mailer error 1

[Jeff Hahn]

A mail message with the following To: line generated this error...

"To: :"

(The following message has been "somewhat" sanitized)

-Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: Mail Delivery Subsystem [mailto:Postmaster@rikers.streek.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 7:21 AM
To: xxx-request@xxx.com
Subject: Returned mail: unknown mailer error 1


The original message was received at Wed, 7 Jul 1999 07:20:17 -0500
from maillist@xxx.xxx.com [xxx.xx.xx.xx]

   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
"|/home/mailman/MM/mail/wrapper post xxx"
    (expanded from: <xxx@xxx.xxx.com>)

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/home/mailman/MM/scripts/post", line 73, in ?
    mlist.Post(msg, approved=fromusenet)
  File "/home/mailman/MM/Mailman/MailList.py", line 1243, in Post
    if (self.require_explicit_destination and
  File "/home/mailman/MM/Mailman/MailList.py", line 1081, in HasExplicitDest
    for recip in msg.getaddrlist('to') + msg.getaddrlist('cc'):
  File "/home/mailman/MM/Mailman/pythonlib/rfc822.py", line 320, in
getaddrlist
    return a.getaddrlist()
  File "/home/mailman/MM/Mailman/pythonlib/rfc822.py", line 496, in
getaddrlist
    ad = self.getaddress()
  File "/home/mailman/MM/Mailman/pythonlib/rfc822.py", line 533, in
getaddress
    if self.field[self.pos] == ';':
IndexError: string index out of range
554 "|/home/mailman/MM/mail/wrapper post xxx"... unknown mailer error 1