[Mailman-Users] Forbidden posters doesn't ...

[William Waggoner]

I found out, when the next message came in, that the "Forbidden posters" is
sort-of case sensitive.  I say "sort of" because the entries must be,
apparently, in lower case.  This is even if the original From line is in
mixed case.

One of the offending messages came in today and it was blocked (Hooray!) and
the only change I had made was to use all lower case for the address.  I did
look at the headers in the held message and the From line is upper and lower
case, exactly as in my example below.

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Bill W

----- Original Message -----
From: "William Waggoner" <greybeard at pobox.com>
To: <mailman-users at python.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 6:49 PM
Subject: [Mailman-Users] Forbidden posters doesn't ...


> Mailman 2.0.8
>
> I put a name into the forbidden posters list (Privacy Options: "Addresses
> whose postings are always held for approval",) hoping that I would get a
> notice and it would be held if that "person" posted again.  Today a new
> message came in and it went right through.
>
> I had copied the address directly from the last message that came in,
> including upper and lower case.  I did NOT include any comments or
brackets,
> just the email address itself.  Is there another trick to it?
>
> The address I am trying to stop is:
YourFriends at maildb.bluemountainarts.com
> because they send out a small SPAM advert once a month or so just because
> someone sent one of their greeting cards to the list once or twice.
>
> Bill W
>
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