[Mailman-Users] How to handle single quote in subscriber email address

[William Waggoner]

I hate to disagree but ...

RFC-0822 (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc822.html) allows the local-part to
contain single quotes.

It also specifically allows, as a specified syntax, quoted strings as the
local part.

The characters that are not allowed outside of quoted strings are:

specials    =  "(" / ")" / "<" / ">" / "@"  ; Must be in quoted-
                 /  "," / ";" / ":" / "\" / <">  ;  string, to use
                 /  "." / "[" / "]"              ;  within a word.

SPACE, and CTL characters.

Note that the period is used as a word separator, it IS allowed but is
considered a separator, not part of the word.

It is Mailman that is broken.

----
Bill W

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joern Nettingsmeier" <nettings at folkwang-hochschule.de>
To: "Cassandra Fleetwood" <csf at incose.propagation.net>;
<mailman-users at python.org>
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 2:57 AM
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] How to handle single quote in subscriber email
address


Cassandra Fleetwood wrote:
>
> cron logs the following error message from qrunner when attempting to send
> the subscription confirmation message to a user that has a single in their
> address (i.e. "john.o'reilly at domain.com").
>
> sh: -c: line 1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
> sh: -c: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file
>
> How do I get Mailman to handle addresses that contain a single quote?

you don't. they are invalid. no funny characters are allowed in headers.
i learned the hard way, because my name contains an "ö" :(
educate your users.

(btw, i have the same problem. one fraggle likes his account name
"double-quoted"@somewhere.com. the funny thing is, mailman allows those
folks to subscribe, but i can't throw them off again because the admin
interface chokes on them. does anyone know whether this is fixed in 2.1
?)

best,

jörn


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