Re: Subscribing by email

Quoting from the majordomo FAQ:
> 4.1 - Address with blanks are being treated separately
> If a subscriber to the list is
> John Doe <[email protected]>
> 
> it gets treated these as the three addresses:
> John
> Doe
> <[email protected]>
> 
> [From Alan Millar]
> Majordomo does not treat these as three addresses. Apparently your mailer does.
> 
> Remember that all Majordomo does is add and remove addresses from a list. Majordomo does not interpret the contents of the list for message distribution; the system mailer (such as sendmail) does.
> 
> I'm using SMail3 instead of sendmail, and it has an alternative (read "stupid") view of how mixed angle-bracketed and non-angle-bracketed addresses should be interpreted. I found that putting a comma at the end of each line was effective to fix the problem, and I got to keep my comments. So I patched Majordomo to add the comma at the end of each address it writes to the list file.
> 
> You can also change to "strip = yes" in the config file so that none of the addresses are angle-bracketed. 



In your case, you would want "strip = no" in your mailing list's config
file to keep comments (real names) in your distribution membership file.

Be warned however, if users subscribe themselves to a list with sripping
turned off, you can end up with a very messy looking membership file.
Allowed formats include;

[email protected]
"first last"@dom.ain
(last,first) <[email protected]>
<[email protected]> (common name)
Dan Liston <[email protected]>
"Dan (don't delete me) Liston" <[email protected]>

I have not checked RFC2822 in awhile, but this is probably valid too;
"first (nickname) last" <[email protected]> (another comment)

Dan Liston

Bill Guion wrote:
> Typically we manage our mail lists by direct editing. A typcial record
> in a file looks like:
> <[email protected]>^tfirst_name last_name (^t is a tab which I represent
> here since you can't see a tab.)
> 
> We do this because some people don't use easily recognizable names for
> their email address. It is rare, but some look like
> [email protected]. Should I need to do something for Bill Smith, I
> may not recognize bill3425 as his email address. But, I can search for
> Bill and find his record if I have his full name in the record. And,
> majordomo uses this just fine.
> 
> Now I have a need for another individual to maintain a few of the lists,
> and the easiest way for him to do this is be email. Email message to
> [email protected], contents of
> approve password zubscribe test <[email protected]>^tBill Guion. The
> zubscribe works just fine, but only the email address
> ([email protected], no <>'s) gets appended to the file.
> 
> Is there a way to subscribe by email and get the format I want in the file?
> 
>      -----===== Bill Guion =====-----