Sorry for the antique thread bump here, but it was the top hit for my "mailman address trailing space" search, so I thought I'd contribute.
------------------------------------- Re: [Mailman-Users] Email address with trailing space Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:38:22 -0800 Trader Joe wrote: >While doing "mass subscription", I accidently put in >an extra space at the end of several email addresses >and now I'm unable to unsubscribe or remove these >email via Web tools. Anyone know how to remove these? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I had the same issue -- version 2.1.9 under Fedora Core 9. The email address had a trailing space, and attempts to delete it via the web interface resulted in nothing more than a page refresh, with the address still subscribed; the remove_members script reported "No such member" whether I passed it the address with a space, an escaped space, or no space. A later reply included a now-dead link to part of the FAQ. I looked at the archived version here: http://web.archive.org/web/20070221134632/http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.013.htp But those suggestions didn't work in my case. So I grepped the list_members output for just the "correct" part of my bad email address, and lo and behold, the problematic address looked like this: [email protected]\  That's the entity code for a non-breaking space, which I imagine ended up in MM from a copy-paste from rich email. Leveraging another suggestion in this old thread, I was able to remove it but had to escape the ampersand: ./remove_members mylistname [email protected]\  In case this is helpful to anyone else. Thanks, all! -- MB ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
