Re: majordomo unmaintained, postmaster emails ignored?

From: "Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: neuhauser(at)sigpipe(dot)cz
Subject: Re: majordomo unmaintained, postmaster emails ignored?
Date: 2006-03-01 04:07:13
Message-ID: a8d2353a7567fcd4f676895dd36b016f@biglumber.com
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Roman Neuhauser replied to me:
>> I suspect that the listserv is choking on the "#" symbol. This is
>> undoubtably a bug in their software. For one thing, it should not
>> have accepted the email address as far along as it did.

> Eh? That email address is completely valid.

Sure it is, but the mailing list software doesn't think so, or at least
part of it does. What I meant by the above was that if the software was
going to choke on the email address, it should have done so right away,
instead of allowing it to get fully subscribed and then deciding that
it was not valid at some other point in the workflow leading up to
actually sending you some email.

>> Well, all I can recommend then is perhaps trying an email address without
>> the "#" sign if possible.

> Funny thing, I've managed to sign to pgsql-general with the address
> displayed above when I sent the very first subscribe command from
> that address. That suggests that the bug shows up

The address is fully subscribed to the list, both Marc and I can verify
that. The problem is that it fails some other check when mail is sent
to it. Why in the world that logic is not centralized, I cannot imagine.

Marc wrote:
> Nope, that isn't it .. the thing is, from this end, I can't see/find any
> problems ... he's subscribed to the list:

Marc, I was able to view that weird whitespace message by going to
"Subcribers", entering "neuhauser" in the search box, and then "clicking"[1]
on the troublesome name in question.

[1] I actually use links, so there is no mouse clicking involved, but I've
never been able to find a better verb to use there. :)

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