On Thu, 20 May 2010, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> I actually was only worried about jack&jill@.... the ampersand scares me
> somehow...
> I love using Mailman's CLI and it groks badly (as I expected) when I try
> creating such a list:
>
> gw# /usr/local/mailman/bin/newlist
> women&cybercrime@???<women%26cybercrime@???>
> [1] 30621
> cybercrime@???: Command not found.
> gw# Enter the email of the person running the list:
>
> Now, it thinks the part apres the "&" is a command:-)
No idea whether Mailman will like the ampersand, but the problem here is
that the shell is interpreting the ampersand, so Mailman never gets a
chance to see it and grumble :)
Try quoting your command:
/usr/local/mailman/bin/newlist 'women&cybercrime@???'
but like you I'd still worry about it even if Mailman accepted it :).
Related but not relevant to your problem: I regularly come across website
registrations that refuse to allow an email address with a '+' in them.
And see a recent post from the grumpy troll under his bridge:
http://bridge.grumpy-troll.org/2010/04/email-address-validity.html
Jethro.
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Jethro R Binks
Computing Officer, IT Services, University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
