Jon Forrest wrote: > >newlist --help says: > >"Note that listnames are forced to lowercase". > >That doesn't seem to be true.
The confusion is there are two list names. The internal list name which is the name of the list's sub-directory in Mailman's lists/ directory, and the name which is used in URLs referencing the list is lower case. The real_name attribute on the list's General Options page may be mixed case, but must be the same as the internal name except for case. A newly created list will be given an initial real_name = to the all lower case internal name except the first character will be Upper case if it's a letter. This name is used in some messages and on the listinfo page. >I just ran > > bin/newlist test > >but my listinfo web page shows this as "Test". >It also shows up as "Test" in the General Options >web page. > >If I look at the "Details for real name" information, it says: > >"Email addresses are not case sensitive..." > >I learned in Email 101 that this is not true on the left >side of "@" signs. Was my teacher playing a cruel joke on me? >In any case, I can change "Test" to "test" and all appears >well. Or you can leave it as "Test" or make it "TEST" if you like. You are correct. Local parts of email addresses (left of the @) are interpreted only by local mail delivery and may be case sensitive although they usually aren't. If *your* MTA is case sensitive, then your list's real_name should be all lower case to match the internal name, but most likely, you can capitalize it any way you want to make it pretty. -- 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