[Mailman-Users] 2.1.5 fedora core 3 prevent mailbody problem

[Mark Sapiro]

Andy Heath wrote:
>
>1. regex matching with some regex'es
>causes mailman to loop trying to send
>mail to the list-owner and failing.
>
>e.g.
>this seems ok
>
>subject:.*spam
>
>but this one causes looping
>
>subject:.*[SPAM].*

The upper/lower case is immaterial as thes matches ale all
'ignorecase', but you don't want the above regexp in any case since
[SPAM] is a character set so the regexp matches anything with an 's',
'p', 'a' or 'm' in the subject.

I don't know what would cause the looping, but you want at least

subject:.*\[spam\].*

as the regexp.

What are the reasons (error log, smtp-failure log ?) for the failure in
the notification 'loop'?

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