[Mailman-Users] how to remove address with bad ASCII
Barry Warsaw
barry at python.org
Thu Apr 17 06:07:17 CEST 2003
On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 02:06, Richard M. Pavonarius wrote:
> I'm having trouble removing from a mailing list a few addresses that
> contain non-ASCII characters. In the error message I'm receiving from
> Postfix, the character shows up as a question mark, but it's not really a
> question mark. I can't remove the address from the web interface because
> the offending character can't be encoded into a URL (or something like that.)
>
> Is there a way I can remove the addresses directly from the Mailman DB,
> perhaps via Python or one of the scripts in /home/mailman/bin?
>
> I'm using version 2.0.13+J3
>
> Example:
>
> <******@jc-21.ac.jp?>: bad host/domain syntax: "jc-21.ac.jp?"
A while back, I posted a recipe that used a regular expression and
find_members to locate offending email addresses. Barring that, I'd say
manual surgery via bin/withlist will be the answer.
-Barry
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