[MlMt] sending emails that were in excel

[Steven M. Bellovin]

On 30 Aug 2016, at 5:03, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 29 Aug 2016, at 19:08, Annamarie wrote:
>
>> This seems like it is a basic question and that I **should** know the 
>> answer - but I don't.
>>
>> I have 13 email addresses in Excel. I copied the column and pasted 
>> into a BCC field and then gave each address a comma. All but the 
>> first have bounced with addressee unknown. Now that they have 
>> bounced, I can see that there was an "=" sign in front of each 
>> address.  Obviously I should be doing something different. What would 
>> that be? (yes, I know about a proper email list service - I use 
>> Aweber.)
>
> I don't have Excel and therefore I cannot reproduce/test this. Let me 
> know if you think MailMate is to blame, that is, MailMate somehow 
> inserts the `=` characters.

Inserting = sounds like it was either an Excel formula or it's something 
to do with quoted printable.


         --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb