On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 01:41:13AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Andrew Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I have just switched my majordomo list over to a new host. I have found
> > that when I subscribe a name and address together, e.g.:
>
> > "Andrew Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > that there are problems sending out the mail. I have been told that the
> > problem is that the host is using qmail instead of sendmail, and that
> > qmail does not like to see names. It interprets the whole thing as one
> > address.
>
> > 1. Is this true?
>
> Yup.
>
> > 2. If it is, is there a way around it (besides dropping the names from
> > the list)?
>
> You would need to fix the program that's being used to send outgoing mail
> so that it strips the name out of the address before passing it to qmail.
> I don't know of anyone who's already done this work for the general case;
> my mjinject script handles it for the simpler case of:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Doe)
>
> though, and could probably be extended to handle the more general case.
> You can get it from <ftp://ftp.eyrie.org/pub/software/majordomo/mjinject>.
I think djb's mess822 lib could help out a lot here...
Greetz, Peter.
--
Peter van Dijk - student/sysadmin/ircoper/madly in love/pretending coder
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| 'C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot;
| C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.'
| Bjarne Stroustrup, Inventor of C++
