[Mailman-Users] When using qmail, messages bounce if they have capital letters in the listname portion of the address

[Tanner Lovelace]

Greetings,

I recently installed Mailman on my system.  I use qmail
as my mailer daemon so I used the qmail-to-mailman.py 
script contributed by Bruce Perens.  I noticed however,
that when using the script it bounces any address that
has any kind of capital letters in the username portion
of the e-mail address.  This is apparently because of
the fact that the script checks for the existence of
the list directory to verify a list's existence.  Since
the directory is lowercased upon creation, the script
needs to lowercase the username portion of the address
also. (example: if you have a list called 
mailinglist at lists.domain.com and send a message to 
MailingList at lists.domain.com it will bounce the message 
saying there is no list by that name.)  I asked Bruce
about it and he suggested I submit my patch.

One question I had, though, was if this was the correct 
way to handle this.  Domain names are defined to be case 
insensitive but generally usernames are not.  Unfortunately, 
many users come from the MS-Windows world where most things 
are case insensitive and are likely to get confused by case 
sensitivity.

I've gone ahead and submitted this as a bug to sourceforge
and submitted a corresponding patch.  I hope that was
the correct thing to do.

Anyway, here is the patch.  What are the chances that
this can make it into the 2.0 release? 

--- contrib/qmail-to-mailman.py-orig	Mon Nov 13 19:13:23 2000
+++ contrib/qmail-to-mailman.py	Mon Nov 13 19:14:00 2000
@@ -62,6 +62,8 @@
         sys.stderr.write("LOCAL not set in environment?\n")
         sys.exit(100)
 
+    local = string.lower(local)
+
     local = re.sub("^mailman-","",local)
 
     names = ("root", "postmaster", "mailer-daemon", "mailman-owner",
"owner",

-- 
Tanner Lovelace
lovelace at wayfarer.org
http://wtl.wayfarer.org/
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