On 06/02/2013 08:50 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: > > There is no reason that Mailman couldn't be enhanced with a configurable > *option* that would allow the domain Admin to *tell* it which > character(s) (there was recent talk on the postfix list of postfix being > enhanced to allow multiple characters to be defined as this delimiter) > were to be used as delimiters.
There is a huge difference between telling your local MTA that some character in the local part of an address is a delimiter and that it and what follows are not part of the address for user validation/delivery purposes, and guessing that the same thing might be true for some remote user's MTA. I.e. no one without knowledge of the specific domain can know whether or not [email protected] and [email protected] belong to the same person or even whether or not [email protected] and [email protected] belong to the same person. Consequently, and due to a long history of problems when intermediate hosts have attempted to optimize transport by modifying them, the local-part MUST be interpreted and assigned semantics only by the host specified in the domain part of the address. RFC 5321, sec 2.3.11 > I would love to see this ability in MM3... The issue is moot in MM 3. There, users are distinct from their addresses. In one installation, a user may have several addresses, be an owner of a few lists, a member of a few lists, prefer delivery from list 1 to her [email protected] address, prefer delivery from list 2 to her [email protected] address and prefer delivery from list 3 to her [email protected] address, and have her posts to any of the lists from any of the addresses be recognized as member posts. -- Mark Sapiro <[email protected]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
