[Mailman-Users] Correct Syntax For SUBSCRIBE Email Command

[Mark Sapiro]

Steve Lund wrote:
>
>Sorry for the stupid question but the documentation shows no examples and I 
>am getting tired of playing 20 guesses with Mailman and always loosing. How 
>do I make the following work? -
>
>subscribe address= "John Q Public" <jqp123 at pobox.com>


You can't. Your syntax is wrong. It parses into 3 arguments:

address=
"John Q Public"
<jqp123 at pobox.com>

but that's not the issue. If it worked, you would need

subscribe 'address= "John Q Public" <jqp123 at pobox.com>'

but that won't work because this form doesn't expect a real name. You
need

subscribe address=jqp123 at pobox.com

Or if you need the real name, send the email

From: "John Q Public" <jqp123 at pobox.com>

with just

subscribe

as the command or send it to the -subscribe address.

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