Barry Finkel wrote:
>>> There was a posting to a number of lists here yesterday
>>>
>>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>
>>> all of the lists are linked; some of the lists are subscribed to others.
>>> I took that address and added it to
>>>
>>> acceptable_aliases
And Mark Sapiro replied:
>>What did you add to acceptable_aliases? And for which list(s)?
>>
>>A post addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] will presumably be
>>delivered to the comp_info list. In order for it not to be held by that
>>list, you need either
>>
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>or a regexp like
>>
>>^comp_info([EMAIL PROTECTED])[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>in the acceptable_aliases of the comp_info list. Then if other lists are
>>members of the comp_info list, you need the same thing in
>>acceptabale_aliases of those other lists to prevent the post from being
>>held there.
and I replied:
>For each of the five lists for which there was a posting held for
>moderation I entered
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>in the acceptable_aliases box on the admin web page via cut-and-paste.
>
>The mailling list that, I assume, is part of the distribution list for
>this comp_info_cats+noc list is
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>That address is an accceptable_alias for the Mailman list
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>and to that list is subscribed
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>In addition
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>is an accceptable_alias for the Mailman list
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>and to that itad list is subscribed three other Mailman lists:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>For each of these six lists (out, itad, opstr, ad, cs, us) I had added
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>to accceptable_aliases.
>
>The only thing "strange" about the string I added to acceptable_aliases
>is the two "+" characters. I did not know if the plus characters were
>causing problems.
I ran another test:
1) I set up an e-mail alias
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
that points to an existing test list on my test Mailman 2.1.9
system.
2) Via that test list admin web page, I added
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
to the acceptable_aliases list. This address is the only entry in
the list.
3) I sent test mail to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
and the mail was sent to the moderator (i.e., me) due to
"implicit destination"
I have not looked at the code, and I am not an expert in regular
expressions. I surmise that Mailman is treating the address as a
regular expression, which matches
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
...
but does not match
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I then changed the acceptable_aliases to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
and test mail was distributed.
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Barry S. Finkel
Computing and Information Systems Division
Argonne National Laboratory Phone: +1 (630) 252-7277
9700 South Cass Avenue Facsimile:+1 (630) 252-4601
Building 222, Room D209 Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Argonne, IL 60439-4828 IBMMAIL: I1004994
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