[Mailman-Developers] Ignoring "mail." in domain names

[Barry Warsaw]

On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 09:43, Tom Neff wrote:
> Another way we could really reduce moderator headaches would be to teach
> Mailman to try removing a leading "mail." in the domain part of the address
> if a member lookup fails.  I get a lot of people who join lists as
> JSmith at splonk.edu and end up posting (immediately or six months later) as
> JSmith at mail.splonk.edu.  If I had per-member aliases I could add them as
> needed, but this one case is so pervasive that it might make more sense to do
> it list-wide or even hard code it.

Mailman used to do stuff like this, but it was pretty error-prone.  I
think the best long-term solution is to allow members to specify posting
aliases.

-Barry