On Thu, 20 May 2010, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > I actually was only worried about jack&j...@.... 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&[email protected]<women%[email protected]> > [1] 30621 > [email protected]: 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&[email protected]' 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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jethro R Binks Computing Officer, IT Services, University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
