[Mailman-Users] Question about ban_list Regular Expression

Barry Finkel b19141 at anl.gov
Fri Nov 21 17:39:21 CET 2008


I have a question about the ban_list regex.  In a reply on
Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:59:28 Mark Sapiro wrote

>  So set Privacy options...->Sender filters->generic_nonmember_action
>  to Accept so anyone can post and set Privacy options...->Subscription
>  rules->ban_list to a regex that matches all addresses not in your
>  domain. E.g.,
>  
>  ^.*@(?!example\.com)$
>  
>  or if you want to allow sub-domains within your domain
>  
>  ^.*@(.*\.)?(?!example\.com)$

If I want subdomains of example.com and anl.gov to be able to
subscribe (and to ban other domains), is this the correct regex for
ban_list?

     ^(regex|regex)

i.e.,

     ^(.*@(.*\.)?(?!example\.com)$|.*@(.*\.)?(?!anl\.gov)$)

Thanks.
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