Public bug reported:
Feature request
Mailman 3 should try to fuzzily match unknown author addresses against
the member database. For example, if "turnbull@sk.domain.tld" is
subscribed, then "turnbull@shako.sk.domain.tld" probably is the same
person. This could probably be efficiently implemented by storing
domains in bigendian order, and testing for prefixes. Bonus points for
matching on full name. For example, for me personally
firstname@xemacs.org and lastname@xemacs.org both resolve to me, which
could not be reasonably associated by algorithm, but I always use the
same full name, which would be strong indication that it's me. Possibly
matching on mailbox would also be useful, but only as an optimization to
be confirmed by one of the other two (or maybe if the match is unique?)
Note that for the first example, the second "turnbull@shako" variant is
today used only by spammers; I haven't sent a message with that "From"
since 1995, and I doubt it's been used as "Sender" more than a very
small handful of times since 2000. For this reason, the feature should
*never* be automated. Instead, it should be part of the moderation
interface. If a match is detected, then an option should appear saying
something like "This address appears to be an alias for <member name and
address>. [ ] Add <unknown address> as an alias for <member>."
** Affects: mailman
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Description changed:
Feature request
Mailman 3 should try to fuzzily match unknown author addresses against
the member database. For example, if "turnbull@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp" is
subscribed, then "turnbull@shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp" probably is the same
person. This could probably be efficiently implemented by storing
domains in bigendian order, and testing for prefixes. Bonus points for
matching on full name. For example, for me personally
firstname@xemacs.org and lastname@xemacs.org both resolve to me, which
could not be reasonably associated by algorithm, but I always use the
same full name, which would be strong indication that it's me. Possibly
matching on mailbox would also be useful, but only as an optimization to
be confirmed by one of the other two (or maybe if the match is unique?)
Note that for the first example, the second "turnbull@shako" variant is
today used only by spammers; I haven't sent a message with that "From"
since 1995, and I doubt it's been used as "Sender" more than a very
small handful of times since 2000. For this reason, the feature should
*never* be automated. Instead, it should be part of the moderation
interface. If a match is detected, then an option should appear saying
something like "This address appears to be an alias for