On 06/04/2013 01:25 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > > > OK. This is a bug. I have entered it in the tracker at > > <https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/1187201> and I will fix it, but > > I'm not yet sure how. And the filter does continue to work for all > > addresses, even the bad ones. > > Well, is it a bug? It seems to me that depends on whether the setting > is REJECT (it's a bug, although only wasting the MTA's time AFAICS) or > DISCARD (not a bug). If it's DISCARD, surely the admin intends to > nuke that spammer in the future, too? I don't know if this argument > applies to evil characters in the address but it should be true for > invalid domains.
The bug is only that if you select "Add <invalid address> to one of these sender filters:" Mailman will add the address to one of the *_these_nonmembers filters and later you will be unable to edit that filter through the web UI unless and until you remove the invalid address. > > That's my inclination for the fix. I.e. don't add the address to the > > filter and say why, but what else should or shouldn't be done. E.g. > > suppose this is one address out of 5 to be added from 5 posts. Do we > > abort the whole transaction, do everything else anyway or something in > > between. > > I would say Mailman should (1) add all the valid addresses, (2) give > an error message specifying any addresses Mailman rejected, followed > (3, in the same page) by a confirmation message saying which addresses > were added. Also, it might be useful to *prepend* the new addresses > to the list or regexp. I've started to implement (1) and (2). (3) may or may not be tricky, but I'll see. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> 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://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
