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From: Daniel Bastos
Subject: on mail addresses
Date: 10 Aug 2009 11:06:32
Message: <4a803778@news.povray.org>

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.

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From: Jim Henderson
Subject: Re: on mail addresses
Date: 10 Aug 2009 11:30:34
Message: <4a803d1a$1@news.povray.org>

On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:06:32 -0400, 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.

Maybe ask the list maintainer if they've seen this before.

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From: andrel
Subject: Re: on mail addresses
Date: 10 Aug 2009 11:58:13
Message: <4A804394.7020604@hotmail.com>

On 10-8-2009 17:30, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:06:32 -0400, 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.
> 
> Maybe ask the list maintainer if they've seen this before.

quite likely with such a common address.

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From: Jim Henderson
Subject: Re: on mail addresses
Date: 10 Aug 2009 12:14:30
Message: <4a804766@news.povray.org>

On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:58:12 +0200, andrel wrote:

> On 10-8-2009 17:30, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:06:32 -0400, 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.
>> 
>> Maybe ask the list maintainer if they've seen this before.
> 
> quite likely with such a common address.

Yeah, and Google's mail handling for mailing lists is reportedly somewhat 
weird anyways, though usually what I hear is it's more to do with copies 
of your posts not coming back (regardless of the setting at the list 
server).

Jim

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From: Darren New
Subject: Re: on mail addresses
Date: 16 Aug 2009 19:22:56
Message: <4a8894d0$1@news.povray.org>

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.

-- 
   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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