Daniel Bastos wrote:
> So I signed up for a mail list. But google refuses to send the email
> that I must send to confirm the subscription. So I thought I should
> bypass this tyranical system by using my super UNIX mail program
> friend. But it sucked.
> 
> %printf 'From: dbastos@toledo.com\n' | mail -s stuff
'alerts-sc.1249915277.ohnfgbjcamanmikdjlib-dbastos=toledo.com@lists.nader.org'
> Cannot parse address `alerts-sc.1249915277.ohnfgbjcamanmikdjlib-dbastos' (while
expanding `alerts-sc.1249915277.ohnfgbjcamanmikdjlib-dbastos'): Format of RFC822
object is bad
> %
> 

> What's wrong exactly? This address is claimed valid by qmail/ezmlm.

The "=" sign is part of MIME that lets you use foreign character sets in 
email addresses. It basically allows you to q-p or base64 encode the address.

If you really need to get around it, look up the appropriate RFCs and encode 
the whole thing as a quoted-printable email address using =3D in place of 
the = sign.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME#Encoded-Word

Try the address
=?iso-8859-1?Q?alerts-sc.1249915277.ohnfgbjcamanmikdjlib-dbastos=3Dtoledo.com@lists.nader.org?=
as the to-address.

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "We'd like you to back-port all the changes in 2.0
    back to version 1.0."
   "We've done that already. We call it 2.0."

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