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Subject: Re: Strange Character in Email Address
From: Daniel Liston <dliston @ sonny . org>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 20:11:39 -0500
To: karlp @ ourldsfamily . com
Cc: Majordomo Users <majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com>
In-reply-to: <41285.207.173.117.242.1160661472.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com>
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User-agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909)

What happens if she uses "John&Mary<johmar @
 domain .
 tld>"?

I wonder if this is somehow related to changes in perl
or a majordomo bug related to storing email comments in
the membership file?  I know I used to have email addresses
like mom&dad @
 example .
 com in some of my lists, but I always
strip off the comment portions of addresses by using the
strip = yes
setting in the mailing list's .config file.  Since the To:
field of the header does not contain the list member's name
anyway, I see no point in cluttering the addresses with
comments.  On the other hand, when a list is personal or
private, the comments do help decrypt some of the weird
addresses out there.

Have you ever noticed how /etc/aliases never uses comments
in an email address? ;)

Dan Liston

karlp @
 ourldsfamily .
 com wrote:
> Okay, that was not Real accurate. an ampersand isn't a strange character, but
> a member of one of our email groups listed her email address as "John & Mary
> <johmar @
 emaddr .
 com>". Her emails to the group didn't make it through.
> 
> We use MD 1.94.5 on Fedora Core 4 "out of the box", which includes dovecot.
> 
> I applied the MIME/HTML patch some time ago but haven't seen this particular
> issue and actually didn't suspect it. I asked her to take the amerpsand out of
> the email address and give it a test and her email started getting to the
> group.
> 
> Any ideas/thoughts?
> 
> Thanks,
> 




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