All of our email groups are private and we store comments with the email
addresses to give us a more personal flavor.
One thing that's interesting is that she gets all the emails, but can't send
email to the group, until taking the ampersand out. I know perl doesn't like
the use of the ampersand unless it's escaped, so maybe that has something to
do with it...
As long as it works, I'm not going to complain, and finding the solution that
easilly was a bit nicer than other experiences I've given some members, like
figuring out that the Incredimail client reverses the order of MIME and plain
text in an HTML email so the HTML stripping plugin I use with 1.94.5 strips
the whole email out. That took some digging.
I've never noticed the format of /etc/aliases... My 1.94.5 aliases is
separate, requiring a different syntax in /etc/mail/sendmail.mc but I prefer
to keep it separate because both are extensive.
Thanks,
Karl
On Thu, October 12, 2006 7:11 pm, Daniel Liston wrote:
> 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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