On 02/14/2017 10:52 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Mark Sapiro writes:
I'd like feedback on this. What are your thoughts on what characters should be allowed in list names?
Uh, RFC 6532 ....
That doesn't really address my question. That has to do with internationalized email addresses. Granted the listname must be a valid local part of an email address, but that doesn't mean every valid local part has to be a valid list name.
In particular, the issue that raises this question is a list name containing a slash. while 'my/list@example.com' is a legal email address, https://lists.example.com/mailman3/lists/my/list.example.com/ is not a URL which will work in Postorius.
Probably that can wait for when we actually support it :-), but while you're doing this we should (= I should when life gets sane ;-) make sure that whatever that restriction is, is encapsulated in one place.
I think I've done that in my current MR on this at <https://gitlab.com/mailman/mailman/merge_requests/248> which implements a [mailman] config setting described in schema.cfg as
# Specify what characters are allowed in list names. Characters outside of # the class [-_.+=!$*{}~0-9a-z] matched case insensitively are never allowed, # but this specifies a subset as the only allowable characters. listname_chars: [-_.0-9a-z]
The only questions are whether these are the right sets for the "outside this are not allowed" class and the default listname_chars class.
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