Re: Strange Character in Email Address

What happens if she uses "John&Mary<[email protected]>"?

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&[email protected] 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

[email protected] 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
> <[email protected]>". 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,
>