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

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Tom,

Hotmail also does the same thing, or at least they used to. I used to run 
into the issue more frequently when I was running Majordomo.

It would seem to me that rather than hard-coding a string ("mail"), that 
one could see if there was more than one "." after the "@", if so parse out 
the domain (splonk.edu) and see if there is a match with 
JSmith at some_mail_server.splonk.edu....

Just a thot....

Brian

At 09:43 AM 5/1/2003 -0400, 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.
>
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