On Feb 3, 2005, at 9:26 PM, Charles Oriez wrote:

> At 06:53 PM 2/3/2005, Stan Horwitz wrote:
>> On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Charles Oriez wrote:
>>
>> >running v1.8e
>> >
>> >I had a user who seems to be properly subscribed to a list get a 
>> reject
>> >message saying that he wasn't authorized to post to the list from his
>> >address.  The address he tried to post from is the same as the 
>> address that
>> >shows for him when I query the subscriber base, except that the 
>> address was
>> >in lower case on the list and his from address on his email was in 
>> upper
>> >case.  NOPOST and REVIEW are not set in his configuration.
>> >
>> >I always thought that email addresses were case insensitive for 
>> purposes of
>> >deciding whether someone was subscribed or not, but I can't come up 
>> with
>> >any other explanations for why he had trouble posting. Any other 
>> bright ideas?
>>
>> Its hard to say without seeing the header of the rejected message.  
>> How
>> was this subscription added to your list? Perhaps the problem can be
>> solved by deleting the subscription and then allowing the person to
>> subscribe again so that you're sure this person's correct email is
>> captured by Listserv.
>
> he's been subscribed since Jan of last year, but this is the first 
> time that he's tried to post
>
> incidentally, I was wrong.  His address was all lower case both in the 
> from address and in the list subscription database
>
> I'll mail you the reject off list along with a picture of his 
> subscription
>
>
>
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