[Mailman-Developers] email address validation

[Hubbard, Matthew R W]

Dear All,

I had a quick search and couldn't find much about this. I'm using Mailman
2.1.2.

I've been looking through the add member code, specifically the
InviteNewMember, AddMember and ApprovedAddMember functions.

It has struck me as odd that there is a lot more effort in validating email
addresses in the AddMember function than in the ApprovedAddMember and the
InviteNewMember doesn't even call Utils.ValidateEmail.

Could / should this be consolidated in some fashion? I don't especially
trust a vast list of address supplied by an administrator anymore than a
user filling in the subscribe form.

Cheers,
Matt.