On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 05:43:48PM -0700, Jason Wright wrote:
> i'm trying to set things up so that *@example.com can post to the lists but
> all other addresses are held for approval as explained here:
>
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2001-February/009828.html
>
> teo de hesselle responded, suggesting using a regex:
>
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2001-February/009835.html
>
> neither post says exactly which configuration option that regex should go in,
> but it seems to me that 'posters' is the correct place. if i use the
> following
>
> moderated = 0
> member_posting_only = 1
> posters = ['.*@example\\.com']
>
> and post from [EMAIL PROTECTED], an address which is not subscribed to the
> list, the post is held for approval.
>
> if i change 'posters' to
>
> posters = ['.*@example\\.com', '[EMAIL PROTECTED]']
>
> then posts from [EMAIL PROTECTED] go through, so it seems that 'posters'
> doesn't accept regular expressions.
>
> am i tweaking the wrong settings?
(I haven't seen an answer come past, so here is one.) No, you're just
tweaking them incorrectly. You have one backslash too many;
'.*@example\\.com' will match example\.com so you want
'.*@example\.com'. (The jwright case works because the . matches any
character.)
Jim Trigg
Itinerant List Admin
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