[Mailman-Users] Regular expressions in list config files?

[Mark Sapiro]

Mark Sapiro wrote:

>bernholdtde at ornl.gov wrote:
>>
>>Here's the result: In applying header_filter_rules, it looks like the
>>entire set of headers is being treated as a single multiline string.
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>
>That is correct.
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>>For reasons I don't entirely understand (remember I'm not a python
>>expert), "^" and "$" are not matching the beginning and end of
>>individual lines of a multiline string, even though I interpreted
>>http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/matching-searching.html to say
>>that they should, and a colleague who's very familiar with Python also
>>thought they should.
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>It works for me.


I suspect you have an old Mailman version. Prior to Mailman 2.1.7, the
regular expression search was not multiline and therefore '^' and '$'
would only match the beginning and end respectively of the string of
all the headers.

I have updated FAQs 3.32 (again) and 3.51 to note the version
dependence.

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