On 06/04/2013 01:25 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
OK. This is a bug. I have entered it in the tracker at <https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/1187201> and I will fix it, but I'm not yet sure how. And the filter does continue to work for all addresses, even the bad ones.
Well, is it a bug? It seems to me that depends on whether the setting is REJECT (it's a bug, although only wasting the MTA's time AFAICS) or DISCARD (not a bug). If it's DISCARD, surely the admin intends to nuke that spammer in the future, too? I don't know if this argument applies to evil characters in the address but it should be true for invalid domains.
The bug is only that if you select "Add <invalid address> to one of these sender filters:" Mailman will add the address to one of the *_these_nonmembers filters and later you will be unable to edit that filter through the web UI unless and until you remove the invalid address.
That's my inclination for the fix. I.e. don't add the address to the filter and say why, but what else should or shouldn't be done. E.g. suppose this is one address out of 5 to be added from 5 posts. Do we abort the whole transaction, do everything else anyway or something in between.
I would say Mailman should (1) add all the valid addresses, (2) give an error message specifying any addresses Mailman rejected, followed (3, in the same page) by a confirmation message saying which addresses were added. Also, it might be useful to *prepend* the new addresses to the list or regexp.
I've started to implement (1) and (2). (3) may or may not be tricky, but I'll see.
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