[Mailman-Users] Invalid : @hotmail.com

[Mark Sapiro]

Munzir Taha wrote:
>
># /usr/lib/mailman/bin/sync_members -w=no -f myfile.list mylistname
>Invalid :                    @hotmail.com
>
>Any hint why I got this error? I checked the myfile.list and can't see any 
>mail without the username part.
>
>$ grep '^@' myfile.list
>$

Maybe there's a space, tab, backspace or other 'transparent' character
preceding the '@'. What do you get if you do

grep '[^[:alnum:]]@' myfile.list

or

grep '[[:cntrl:][:space:]]@' myfile.list

etc.?

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