Thanks Richard--I should have done a little more checking before sending the message to the list. In fact, it appears to be a problem with the OS X mail client--other clients that I was able to test correctly quoted the name portion of the header.
Thanks again... matt On Tuesday, January 8, 2002, at 10:33 AM, Richard Barrett wrote: > At 09:56 08/01/2002 -0600, Matthew Shames wrote: >> Hey folks, >> >> I hope you don't mind another question from a Mailman "newbie". I am >> another of the Mac enthusiasts who have moved over to OS X in the past >> couple of years, and am enjoying expanding my knowledge to include >> some UNIX basics. >> >> I've noticed a strange problem whereby Mailman appears to munge the >> "From" address when it contains both a name and an address, and the >> name contains a period. The setup: Mailman 2.0.7 on OS X 10.1.2, with >> Postfix (20010228-pl08) as the MTA. The list in question is called >> "test", and restricts postings to subscribed users. If I send a >> message, and the "From" header is set to: >> >> Matthew E. Shames <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> Mailman rejects it because it states that it is being sent from >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Additionally, it tries to send a >> bounce message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], which is not a >> valid address, so the postmaster (also me) gets notified. >> >> Now, if I set the "From" header to: >> >> Matthew Shames <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> the message goes through without any incident. Additionally, if I set >> member_posting_only to false, messages from either scenario make it >> through without incident. > > This is not a Mailman issue but a failure to conform to RFC822 issue. > The '.' character is a special character in a mail header field while > 'Matthew', 'E' and 'Shames' are atoms. Because of the special character > you need to quote the string. You should be saying: > > "Matthew E. Shames" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > The missing quotes are leading to a parsed result which is at variance > with your desires. > > The other form you used: > > Matthew Shames <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > is OK because 'Matthew' and 'Shames' are both atoms and hence the > string does not require quoting. > > If you are really sad, mad or bad see > http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc822.html > >> I'm not completely sure if this is a postfix issue, or a mailman >> issue, or something else. However, I don't seem to have this issue >> when sending non-list mail through postfix. >> >> I hope this makes sense--I'd be happy to explain further. If anyone >> has any insights, I'd be most grateful. >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------ >> Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
