Re: [Mailman-Developers] USE_ENVELOPE_SENDER is not flexible enough

2002-01-30 Thread Jason R. Mastaler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Barry A. Warsaw) writes: > It probably would be best to add a method get_author() which > returned a list of (From_, From:, Sender:) for comparison Alright, I've added a get_author() method to Mailman.Message which returns a list containing the From:, unixfrom, Reply-To:, and

Re: [Mailman-Developers] USE_ENVELOPE_SENDER is not flexible enough

2002-01-30 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "SJT" == Stephen J Turnbull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "BAW" == Barry A Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BAW> Mailman shall rule THE WORLD! SJT> Take a number, man. (See .sig.) | What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules." Hard to argue with that, seein

Re: [Mailman-Developers] USE_ENVELOPE_SENDER is not flexible enough

2002-01-30 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
> "BAW" == Barry A Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BAW> BAW> Mailman shall rule THE WORLD! BAW> Take a number, man. (See .sig.) -- University of TsukubaTennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (29

Re: [Mailman-Developers] USE_ENVELOPE_SENDER is not flexible enough

2002-01-29 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "JRM" == Jason R Mastaler > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JRM> Well, at least we are "fixing" this here. Mailman shall rule THE WORLD! >> If so, the order ought to go (I think) >> 1. From: 2. From_ 3. Reply-To: 4. Sender: JRM> Alrighty. Cool, thanks. -Barry __

Re: [Mailman-Developers] USE_ENVELOPE_SENDER is not flexible enough

2002-01-29 Thread Jason R. Mastaler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Barry A. Warsaw) writes: > True. I wonder if Reply-To: ought to be added to the mix? It wouldn't hurt. FWIW, TMDA checks Reply-To: in addition to From: and the envelope sender. > Note that all are easily spoofable, so that argument doesn't bother > me much. Exactly. Which

Re: [Mailman-Developers] USE_ENVELOPE_SENDER is not flexible enough

2002-01-29 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "JRM" == Jason R Mastaler > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> When USE_ENVELOPE_SENDER was the default, it was next to >> useless because it rarely matched the sender's membership >> address. So that's why it was disabled. JRM> Understandable. By the same token, there a

Re: [Mailman-Developers] USE_ENVELOPE_SENDER is not flexible enough

2002-01-29 Thread Jason R. Mastaler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Barry A. Warsaw) writes: > When USE_ENVELOPE_SENDER was the default, it was next to useless > because it rarely matched the sender's membership address. So > that's why it was disabled. Understandable. By the same token, there are cases where From doesn't match, but the enve

Re: [Mailman-Developers] USE_ENVELOPE_SENDER is not flexible enough

2002-01-28 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "JRM" == Jason R Mastaler > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JRM> For members-only lists like this one, USE_ENVELOPE_SENDER JRM> currently allows the admin to determine membership by JRM> checking either the From: header, OR the envelope sender JRM> address. JRM> I thin

[Mailman-Developers] USE_ENVELOPE_SENDER is not flexible enough

2002-01-25 Thread Jason R. Mastaler
For members-only lists like this one, USE_ENVELOPE_SENDER currently allows the admin to determine membership by checking either the From: header, OR the envelope sender address. I think a more flexible alternative would be to first check the envelope sender, and then the From: header for a match.

[Mailman-Developers] USE_ENVELOPE_SENDER is not flexible enough

2002-01-24 Thread Jason R. Mastaler
For members-only lists like this one, USE_ENVELOPE_SENDER currently allows the admin to determine membership by checking either the From: header, OR the envelope sender address. I think a more flexible alternative would be to first check the envelope sender, and then the From: header for a match.