[Mailman-Users] newlist.py error after a debian install

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "bear" ==   <bear at code-bear.dyndns.org> writes:

    bear> I used apt-get to install mailman (2.0.12-2) and when I run
    bear> newlist I get the following:

Looks like there's some custom stuff in that package, because that
code doesn't show up at all in the source for ValidateEmail() in
Mailman/Utils.py:

def ValidateEmail(str):
    """Verify that the an email address isn't grossly invalid."""
    # Pretty minimal, cheesy check.  We could do better...
    if not str:
        raise Errors.MMBadEmailError
    if _badchars.search(str) or str[0] == '-':
        raise Errors.MMHostileAddress
    if string.find(str, '/') <> -1 and \
       os.path.isdir(os.path.split(str)[0]):
        # then
        raise Errors.MMHostileAddress
    user, domain_parts = ParseEmail(str)
    # this means local, unqualified addresses, are no allowed
    if not domain_parts:
        raise Errors.MMBadEmailError
    if len(domain_parts) < 2:
	raise Errors.MMBadEmailError

I have no idea where that code's coming from.

-Barry