>I am getting bored of changing their addresses (we are "by owner" and >"validate all") every second moment, especially because the old >addresses still work fine in the other direction, in spite of the >changes (moreover, most of these From: adresses tend to fail in the >other direction...) Then they are clearly the ones who should fix their gateway. >* Is it possible to have some kind of pattern matching when checking > the identity of From: and the list members? No. >* Is it possible to strip any explicit gateways and replace the % by @? > This would already solve many cases... No. >* Is it possible to have an alias database in Listserv? The list would > contain the primary address to send list mail to, and the alias file > would contain (for each primary address) all acceptable source > addresses for 'private'. This would: > + be most flexible > + reduce the need to add/delete/change the primary addresses Add all the possible addresses for all these people to the list and set all but one to NOMAIL. >Any comments??? Get rid of X.400 :-) Eric