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Re: [SIPfoundry] Mail to mailman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx rejected; Names displayed without permission


On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 09:26 -0700, Joe Blank wrote:
> I'm posting this message here because attempts to send mail to
> mailman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are rejected.  This is the address that is
> advertised to be for getting assistance with the mailing lists.
>  
> It is good that your mailing list software is smart enough to not
> include the domain name part of a sender's email address.  So, why is
> it not smart enough to do the same for a person's  name that is
> embedded in the same email address.  It does no good to give users
> control over display of a username in the user options, and then
> bypass the control completely by displaying any name embedded by an
> email server in the email address.

The software is Mailman - feel free to suggest that feature on the mailman 
site: www.list.org

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