On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Bob Hugel wrote: > Davide, > > I'm surprised (and glad) to see that you are working on xmail this > weekend... I too have been working on a few things in xmail and have a few > questions/comments...
It was supposed that i wroked on the kernel today but i lost all my time on XMail :( > 1) It appears that if one uses ctrlclnt to add mailing list users and uses a > 'lowercase' character for the user permissions, the entry is placed into the > ..tab file like it should, but those email address items get overlooked when > a message is sent to the mailing list. Shouldn't the ctrlclnt program or > the xmail program be able to handle uppercase and lowercase characters for > this? (I have noticed this also with 'adduser') True, i'll fix it. > 2) Would it make sense to have the log file names end with .LOG or is that a > problem in Unix, etc? Why ?! > 3) When there is an undeliverable email address in a mailing list, 'where' > does that undeliverable go? Does it go to the 'originator'? (I guess this > makes no sense if the list has multiple contributors) Does it go to the > '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'? or does it go to the 'errorsadmin' on the xmail > server? Check the documentation for ListSender variable. > 4a) I have 4 email addresses (generated by ctrlclnt) in my MLUSERS.tab. > Only one of the email addresses has an 'RW'. Why can any of the email > addresses submit to the mailing list and have the mail forwarded to the > entire list? If your mlusers.tab file entries has the perm field empty, this means RW. This has been done for compatibility when i added the new feature. > 4b) Why can a user who does not exist in the MLUSERS.tab have their email > forwarded to the mailing list? > 4c) Shouldn't that users be prevented from submitting to the list? Look for ClosedML variable. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
