[Mailman-Users] slashes in e-mail addresses

Scot Mc Pherson scot at linuxfromscratch.org
Mon Jun 30 16:50:21 CEST 2003


On Sunday 29 June 2003 04:09 pm, Paul H Byerly wrote:
>        I have someone with a couple of slashes in their e-mail address
> trying to join a list.  Apparently this is non-standard but "allowed" by
> some systems - with Mailman not being one of them.  I found an almost year
> old discussion in the archives about writing a patch for this, but no
> follow up.  Anyone?

Well if you happen to be using postfix, you could very well "fix" it without 
having to touch the mailman sources.  Just create an alias for the user. If 
you are using sendmail, then its a little harder, but the principle is the 
same.

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Scot Mc Pherson
Linux From Scratch
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