On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 12:53 AM, Jethro R Binks <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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]> > <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]<women%[email protected]> > ' > > but like you I'd still worry about it even if Mailman accepted it :). > > Trying as suggested ... gw# /usr/local/mailman/bin/newlist 'women&[email protected]<women%[email protected]> ' Enter the email of the person running the list: [email protected] Initial women&cybercrime password: Create a new, unpopulated mailing list. Usage: /usr/local/mailman/bin/newlist [options] [listname [listadmin-addr [admin-password]]] [snip] ... Illegal list name: women&cybercrime Maybe I can rewrite headers to enable me use such a name, but I think that is being too ambitious. ....and ecartis seems unavailable, even via cvs.. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "If you have nothing good to say about someone, just shut up!." -- Lucky Dube -- ## 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/
