On 10/27/06 6:17 PM, "Jon Forrest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Are you sure your postfix aliases for Mailman are case sensitive. I
>> doubt it. Try mailing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] I suspect both messages will get posted to
>> the list.
>
> You are 100% right. I did NOT kno
Jon Forrest wrote:
>
>My intuition tells me that programs shouldn't change the case
>of user-supplied data unless there's a very good reason for
>doing so, and it's clear that it's happening. But, you
>are clearly the expert in this area.
I understand your point and it seems valid. I can't speak
Mark Sapiro wrote:
> Are you sure your postfix aliases for Mailman are case sensitive. I
> doubt it. Try mailing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] I suspect both messages will get posted to
> the list.
You are 100% right. I did NOT know this!! All these years
of misinformation...
>
>
Jon Forrest wrote:
>
>What got me worried was the signature in messages that come from my list.
>
>It said:
>
> ---
> Test mailing list
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>So, given that my MTA (Postfix) is case sensitive, if somebody
>replied to the email address on the last l
Mark Sapiro wrote:
> A newly created list will be given an initial real_name = to the all
> lower case internal name except the first character will be Upper case
> if it's a letter. This name is used in some messages and on the
> listinfo page.
I'm wondering what the reasoning for this is. If so
Jon Forrest wrote:
>
>newlist --help says:
>
>"Note that listnames are forced to lowercase".
>
>That doesn't seem to be true.
The confusion is there are two list names. The internal list name which
is the name of the list's sub-directory in Mailman's lists/ directory,
and the name which is used i
(Mailman 2.1.9 Fedora 5)
newlist --help says:
"Note that listnames are forced to lowercase".
That doesn't seem to be true.
I just ran
bin/newlist test
but my listinfo web page shows this as "Test".
It also shows up as "Test" in the General Options
web page.
If I look at the "Details
