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["Paul Haldane" <address@concealed>]

I've had a quick look at this (working on source from CVS) and I've got 
something that works for me.  There's a function (get_canonical_email) 
already in tools.pl that seems the obviosu place for this (indeed there's a 
comment there suggesting this).  [the tools.pl in CVS has got two copies of 
the functions get_canonical_email, del and remove_dir - this got me very 
confused as I couldn't work out why it wasn't using my version]

As a proof of concept I've just added 

  $email =~ s/\@ncl\.ac\.uk$/\@newcastle.ac.uk/;

 ... towards the end of get_canonical_email - obviously the mappings would be 
read from a config file in a production system.

Apart from that it was just a matter of adding calls to get_canonical_email 
at appropriate places in wwsympa.fcgi and sympa.pl.  I've found 5 places 
where I needed to do this - there may be more but that seems to have caught 
the majority of issues.

Paul


> From: Olivier Salaun - CRU  
> Sent: 14 October 2004 09:36
> 
> Paul Haldane wrote: 
> 
>       Thanks - I know I'd seen some discussion of this 
> somewhere.  I've added a note to ID 269.
>         
> > Thank you, it will help us keep track of your request.
> 
>       I'd assumed (wrongly it seems - but I hadn't got round 
> to looking at the code) that members' alternate addresses 
> were stored in the database.  I had planned to kludge this 
> using a regular system job which
>       automatically added alternate forms for people who 
> didn't already have them.  Messy and inefficient (and now it 
> sounds like it wouldn't even work :-<).  Our requirements 
> would be satisfied by something quite simple that just forced 
> all email into a canonical form and then used that for lookups.
> 
> > Maybe you could : 
> > 
> > 1.  canonify once all email addresses in Sympa database
> >     
> > 2.  hack sympa.pl to canonify sender email addresses. This 
> > should be done in one place only...
> 
> > This way all command/messages will appear with the official 
> > email address to Sympa. 
> > A similar hack should be done to wwsympa.fcgi that provides 
> > the web interface.
> 
> --
> Olivier Salaün