-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 6:19 PM To: Mike Kercher Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Variations of email addresses
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 03:58:59PM -0500, Mike Kercher wrote: > Actually, it makes perfect sense. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is an alias. > SuSE OpenExchange creates such aliases by default for users. The > simple way around this (for the admin) is to explicitly allow > [EMAIL PROTECTED] to post to the list. This way, you don't open the > whole list up to spammers. You could also unsub some.user@ and then > subscribe sname@ Hopefully, it would be a rare occasion that you'd > have to do this. > The proper approach to this is to rewrite the From address on the outbound address as well as aliasing the inbound. > If the outbound e-mail is some.user@, then all will work properly. Allowing e-mail into the box to be consistently > different than e-mail out of the box is a misconfiguration to me. > There is no way for Mailman to know that the 2 addresses are equivalent unless somebody goes in there and manually >updates the permissions list. > > -- > Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I disagree on your first point. I don't see it as being a misconfiguration. I see it a method of NOT exposing a username. I have many servers with email aliases that eventually get routed to me, but I don't have an email account anywhere named [EMAIL PROTECTED] That doesn't mean I can't reply to an email sent to that address...but any reply would not come from postmaster@ I do agree with your second statement...there is no way for Mailman to know, which is why I said to make one of the suggested changes above. Mike ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
