checking the "to" field for mailing lists

On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Sergio P. Cesar wrote:

> > On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Sergio Cesar wrote:
> >
> >> Can someone tell me what was the idea in checking "from" "to" "subject"
> >> in
> >> the __infile block of askmessage.py?
> >
> >> Under what circunstance will ASK look at anything besides "from",
> >
> > Don't know/remember about "subject" but the  "to" field is critical
> > to receive mailing-lists.

> The mailing lists are checked by the "is_mailing_list_message" block based
> on header match:
>  re.match(".*(majordomo|listserv|listproc|netserv|owner|bounce|mmgr|autoanswer|request|noreply|nobody).*@",
> self.msg.getheader("From",''), re.IGNORECASE)):

So you think ASK lets in any message that looks like a mailing list
message ?

My ASK configuration intensively uses the "to" field to let in
only messages of mailing lists I actually subscribe to.


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