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[Mark Pearson <markp AT earlham.edu>]

Thanks for your help. You were right - it was a system problem. Mail 
messages were taking an hour and half to get sent out!

But we (my mate Kevin & I) did discover a bug in how regular expressions 
are handled in the System Settings : match email addresses:

The reg exp: /[A-z0-9]+@(?:cs\.|ke\.)?earlham.edu/ which should match 
mark AT cs.earlham.edu or mark AT ke.earlham.edu or mark AT earlham.edu gets 
stored in database field options : email_structure as 
/[A-z0-9]+@(?:cs\\.|ke\\.)?earlham.edu/, ie with the backslash escaped 
with another '\'. This wouldn't be so bad if the extra '\' was stripped 
off when retrieved but it's not and so the reg expression fails. When we 
change the db record and remove the extra backslash the reg exp worketh.

Cheers

Mark

lyceum-users-request AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
> Mark- This is most likely a system problem and not a Lyceum problem, 
> either with your machine, or with a firewall on your network. On Fri, 
> 2 Feb 2007, Mark Pearson wrote:
> > > Chaps,
> > >
> > > After a frustrating time getting lyceum to start up (it turns out that 
> > > .htaccess does not execute unless you place a Allow All Vhosts directive in 
> > > httpd.conf!) I now find that no email messages are getting through to new 
> > > users (including the admin user). Any ideas? Is it me or this barmy OS X 10.4 
> > > server system? Try http://blogs.macarius.earlham.edu
> > >
> > > Ta
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Mark Pearson