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[Olivier Salaun - CRU <address@concealed>]

Hi Scott,

Scott Balmos wrote:

> Two questions...
>
> I know the Mailman software has this problem, and was wondering if 
> Sympa does also. Assume a user is a member of lists A and B, and that 
> a list C is created which includes lists A & B (using include_list in 
> the list config file I guess). When a person posts to list C, since 
> our example user is a member of both included lists, will that person 
> receive duplicate copies of the post (one going to list A's members & 
> another to list B's)?

Of course not ; he will receive it once only.

> Next... Does Sympa handle, at all, list members who have extended 
> addresses (e.g. user+foo@bar)? Again, this is another problem that 
> Mailman has. Delivering from Sympa to the user's mailbox is no 
> problem, obviously. But when that user posts to a private 
> (subscriber-only) list, they most likely have their mail client set up 
> to be user@bar, not user+foo@bar. Will Sympa recognize this is still 
> the same person, and allow the mail to go through? If not, where 
> abouts in the code is address recognition handled, so I can possibly 
> add this in as a hack of some sort?

No Sympa will not consider user+foo@bar and user@bar as the same users.
But if this is a common usage, I suggest you "officially" request this 
feature : http://listes.cru.fr/mantis

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Olivier Salaün
Comité Réseau des Universités
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