Martin Dennett wrote: >I'm aware of the Mailman syntax for banning domains, but I'd like to ban >members now whose email address *starts* with a given string! I've had a >lot of requests lately from "debora" to join my list, always followed by >something else before the "@" and at various domains. I tried following >the format [EMAIL PROTECTED] by using "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" but get an error >when I >try to submit the changes. Where am I going wrong?
The '^' character in these expressions serves two purposes. As the *initial* character, it tells Mailman that this is a regular expression and not a literal address, and as part of the regular expression, it matches the beginning of the string. Thus "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" will be interpreted as a literal email address which is invalid, thus the error. What you need is "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" or more simply, just "^debora.*", or even "^debora". See <http://docs.python.org/lib/re-syntax.html>. -- 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
