This happens on my Mailman installation every few dozen posts and I've always assumed Mailman is objecting to the quotes.
Your guess about the quotes being inserted by some MS mail software is probably right. Despite asking asked many senders for more information on what they did which might have triggered this behaviour, I've never managed to get a definitive answer. I wonder whether it's something to do with copying and pasting addresses, or specifically copying and pasting them into an address book and then using that. But does Mailman have to treat this as an implicit address? Of course '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' is not literally exactly the same as [EMAIL PROTECTED] , but the list address is explicitly included within the quotes. Could a future version of Mailman allow for this and avoid treating quoted addresses as implicit destinations? Rod ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Burling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mailman Users" <mailman-users@python.org> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 4:22 PM Subject: [Mailman-Users] Implicit destination > One of our lists has someone post to it whose mail is held, with the error: > > Blind carbon copies or other implicit destinations are not allowed. Try > reposting your message by explicitly including the list address in the > To: or Cc: fields. > > But as near as I can tell, she *is* putting the list address in the To: > field, it's just been munged (presumably by Micro$oft LookOut) to have > quotes in funny places. Here's what the To: field looks like from the > listname.mbox file (edited to protect the innocent): > > To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'> > > Are those unnecessary single quotes inside the "<...>" confusing Mailman? > Or am I missing something really obvious? > > -- > Steve Burling <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > University of Michigan, ICPSR Voice: +1 734 615.3779 > 330 Packard Street FAX: +1 734 647.8700 > Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2910 > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users mailing list > Mailman-Users@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py > Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ > Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/rod%40coate.fsnet.co.uk > > Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp > > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py 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://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
