Re: [Mailman-Users] Unable to purge corrupt address

[Chuq Von Rospach]

This gave me an idea, since I had a list with a binary email address  
(how? add_members of a directory instead of a file in the directory.  
oops).

Here's what I did:
        dumpdb config.db
	this gave me the "\x00\x0c\x....." version of the string.

I cut and pasted that into a quickie perl script:

        #! /usr/bin/perl
        print "\x00\x0c\x......."
	% foo > foo.out

I used that file with remove_members:

	% remove_members -f foo.out <listname>

and it removed the address for me just fine. By dumping the binary into  
a file and then using -f, it avoids running the binary through the  
shell, which is a Bad Thing, so remove_members works on it.



On Friday, March 14, 2003, at 06:01  AM, Dwight Ernest wrote:

Thanks, Jon. This worked (when I chose a character other than "X"  
which apparently had special meaning in the pickle!).

Jon Carnes wrote:
The easiest way I've found to do this is to stop Mailman from running
and then use a hex editor to edit the binary directly (change the out  
of
range value to an standard Ascii value).  Note, that Mailman stores  
the
email names in several places within the database.
It would be great if someone would write a small script to parse  
through
the database and check all the email names... sigh, yet another thing  
on
my list.
Hope that is helpful,
Jon Carnes


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