Jon Forrest wrote:
newlist --help says:
"Note that listnames are forced to lowercase".
That doesn't seem to be true.
The confusion is there are two list names. The internal list name which is the name of the list's sub-directory in Mailman's lists/ directory, and the name which is used in URLs referencing the list is lower case.
The real_name attribute on the list's General Options page may be mixed case, but must be the same as the internal name except for case. A newly created list will be given an initial real_name = to the all lower case internal name except the first character will be Upper case if it's a letter. This name is used in some messages and on the listinfo page.
I just ran
bin/newlist test
but my listinfo web page shows this as "Test". It also shows up as "Test" in the General Options web page.
If I look at the "Details for real name" information, it says:
"Email addresses are not case sensitive..."
I learned in Email 101 that this is not true on the left side of "@" signs. Was my teacher playing a cruel joke on me? In any case, I can change "Test" to "test" and all appears well.
Or you can leave it as "Test" or make it "TEST" if you like.
You are correct. Local parts of email addresses (left of the @) are interpreted only by local mail delivery and may be case sensitive although they usually aren't. If *your* MTA is case sensitive, then your list's real_name should be all lower case to match the internal name, but most likely, you can capitalize it any way you want to make it pretty.
-- Mark Sapiro <msapiro@value.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan