Bugs item #1533058, was opened at 2006-08-02 13:11 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by chris-taylor You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=1533058&group_id=103 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: configuring/installing Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: chris-taylor (chris-taylor) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Duplicate Entries in Aliases/Virtual-Mailman File Initial Comment: Hello, we are using mailman-2.1.7 in cooperation with the postfix mta. While fiddling around with pipe transport we recovered the following problem: Create a mailing list named: students Create a mailing list named: students-request Result: A duplicated entry for students-request in the alias file and in the virtual-mailman file. Shouldn't there be a check for avoiding duplicate entries? The postalias command reports this duplicate entry.... BTW: The postfix-to-mailman.py script also is not able to handle the duplicate entries.... Regards Christian ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Comment By: chris-taylor (chris-taylor) Date: 2006-08-02 15:40

Message: Logged In: YES user_id=994602 The refusal of listnames ending with the "administrative extensions" (like -bounces etc.) sounds good to me. But maybe other users schould comment if this restriction is viable for them..... Because there might be users who want to create lists like: house-owner feature-request etc. This is no problem as long as there are no lists named house or feature.... Thank you for this good piece of software Christian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: chris-taylor (chris-taylor) Date: 2006-08-02 15:38 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=994602 The refusal of listnames ending with the "administrative extensions" (like -bounces etc.) sounds good to me. But maybe other users schould comment if this restriction is viable for them..... Because there might be users who want to create lists like: house-owner feature-request etc. This is no problem as long as there are no lists named house or feature.... Thank you for this good piece of software Christian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: chris-taylor (chris-taylor) Date: 2006-08-02 15:36 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=994602 The refusal of listnames ending with the "administrative extensions" (like -bounces etc.) sounds good to me. But maybe other users schould comment if this restriction is viable for them..... Because there might be users who want to create lists like: house-owner feature-request etc. This is no problem as long as there are no lists named house or feature.... Thank you for this good piece of software Christian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw) Date: 2006-08-02 14:15 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=12800 Because each mailing list really consists of a number of aliases, of which <listname>-request is one, you cannot create a mailing list witht he same basename and -request. While this won't change, perhaps Mailman should refuse to create such -request mailing lists (and -owner, -bounces, etc.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=1533058&group_id=103