I would really like to see an option to disable the "message has implicit destination" behaviour. Here's why:

I run several lists for each of several Internet domains. I do this by having each list having a specific name which includes the domain, eg.: domain1-members domain2-members

My sendmail virtusertable then has an entry to redirect "members" to the list: members@domain1.org members-domain1@vintners.net members@domain2.org members-domain2@vintners.net

Thus, the list members need not include the redundant domain name in the list name: members@domain1.org works, as well as: members-domain1@domain1.org

(Perhaps there's a better way to achieve this configuration, where mailman is serving multiple domains -- please feel free to point me in the right direction.)

In majordomo this configuration worked just fine as it wasn't smart enough to care. mailman on the other hand, does a better job protecting its lists, and rightly disallows implicit addressing. For some lists I run, this is desirable behaviour.

However, as described above, I'm willing to accept the tradeoff of not doing this checking in order to allow aliasing for some other lists.

So, my feature request would be to add a checkbox on a config. page that allows control of this checking.

Thanks for listening!

-- Mike Lempriere; http://vintners.net/~mikel/ WA State resident: junk email prohibited by law: RCW19.190 & RCW19.86