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[John Joseph Bachir <jjb AT ibiblio.org>]

Mark-- can you make a ticket describing the RE problem? Thanks so much!

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On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Mark Pearson wrote:

> 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
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