Bretton Vine wrote: >I repeat, no criticism intended, I just need to be able to give a complete >answer and am anticipating the questions I'll be asked. :-)
I think most of what I'm going to say here has been said by Dragon and Brad already, but just for emphasis... The major reason for require_explicit_destination is it helps filter spam on an 'open' list (generic_nonmember_action = accept) and on a closed list where the spammer might spoof a list member's address as sender because much spam does not address the recipient directly. The default setting in Defaults.py can be overridden by any site that whishes the default for new lists to be No. Whatever is chosen as the Defaults.py value for any particular list setting, some will wish it had been the other way. It is simply not possible to create "out of the box" defaults that will satisfy everyone. That is why a site can change the defaults for itself and individual lists can be changed to be different from the site defaults. >In terms of the logs, the error is /exactly/ the same whether it's > > TO: list > CC: someone > >or > > TO: list > BCC: someone > >or > > TO: someone > BCC: list > >Yes, I'm being pedantic -- but an explanation of the principle doesn't >always answer what happens in practice. I know answers can't be sucked out >of thin-air, but perhaps this has come up before? >(or not and I need to look deeper) What you are saying above is not correct. require_explicit_destination means only that the list posting address or one of the acceptable_aliases addresses must appear somewhere in a To: or Cc: header of the post as received by Mailman. The presence of a Cc: header or Bcc: header (which Mailman probably never sees). has nothing to do with it. Thus of your 3 examples above, if 'list' is the list posting address that Mailman expects to see, only the 3rd example will be held for implicit destination because in this and only this case, Mailman doesn't see the list address as a recipient of the post. Further, To: someone Cc: list will also be accepted. When the message is held for 'implicit destination', view the headers of the message in the admindb interface and/or forward the post to yourself, and you will see that what I'm saying is correct. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
