[Mailman-Users] Implicit destination

[Mark Sapiro]

Rod at freeserve wrote:
>
>But does Mailman have to treat this as an implicit address? Of course
>'list at icpsr.umich.edu' is not literally exactly the same as list at icpsr.umich.edu , but the
>list address is explicitly included within the quotes. Could a future version of Mailman
>allow for this and avoid treating quoted addresses as implicit destinations?


I don't think Mailman should be in the business of guessing how to
re-parse an email address. As I mentioned in another post in this
thread
(<http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2007-December/059534.html>),
the Python email.Utils.parseaddr() function returns the single quotes
as part of the parsed address. If this is a significant problem, I
think the email library is the place to address it.

Also, the issue can be easily avoided by putting the quoted address in
acceptable_aliases.

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