On Dec 10, 18:14, Nick Perry wrote:
>It occurs to me that there is something of an anomoly in the way the
>zubscription and restrict_post features interact and I'd be interested
>to know what the rationale is behind the operation of each feature.
>
>Basically, if a user sends a zubscribe command without explicitly
>specifying an email address, majordomo will take the Reply-To: address
>(if one has been defined) before any From: address.
>
>Restrict_post, however does not check to see if the Reply-To: address is
>matched in any of the specified files.
>
>The latter behavior makes perfect sense, after all Reply-To:, by no
>means determines who *sent* the mail to the list. However it does
>create an anomoly if Reply-To: does not match From:. A user will be
>subscribed under their Reply-To: address, but unable to post because
>their From: address is different (and it's form may be out of th
>user's control - eg, rewritten by the MTA).
I had made this observation (or something like it) some time ago, and had
proposed a small change to restrict_post which would also recognize
Reply-To: addresses. However, this change was in 1.93 and I haven't
implemented it for 1.94.X.
-- John
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