[Mailman-Users] Help ! (not work with & symbol)

Phydeaux reb at taco.com
Fri Jul 27 00:35:24 CEST 2001


At 05:45 PM 7/26/2001 +0200, LE Van Dong wrote:
>   Hi all !
>
>I created one mailing list ,its name a&b
>When i post to list (a&b at blabla.com),i got error msg :
>
>----------
>
><a&b at blabla.com>: Command died with status 127:
>     "/var/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper post r&d". Command output: sh: d:
>command
>     not found Mailman error: post got bad listname: r
>
>-----------
>
>How can i correct it ?
>
>Thanks,
>Dong
>
>Notes : -  i need to use & symbol :-(
>         - debian potato
>         - mailman 2.0.5

You may *need* to use it but I think you can't because the & character
will break just about everything involved.

To start with It's not a legal character for use in email address.

reb





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