Hi Olaf,

Thanks for this straight-forward no-nonsense reply. It is rarely found. This answer is clear and - as far as I know - complete. 

Thanks again!
Pega

Hi to all,

In my blacklist (black.pml) I found 4 different naming conventions:

1. FancyName <name@domain.com>
2. "Fancy Name" <name@domain.com>
3. name@domain.com
4. <name@domain.com>

In the manual I cannot find anything about address naming conventions, except it mentions the last one as a real mailaddress (ie. name@domain.com between angle brackets).

• Are they all acceptable (they doesn't crash the list, but do they work)?
• Are there differences between the conventions?
• Since they were automatically added to the blacklist, why are they different?
• How can I check if there are same addresses or same domains?
  

I'm looking forward to the answers.
Thanks. Pega
 

> Are they all acceptable (they doesn't crash the list, but do they work)?

Yes

> Are there differences between the conventions?

No ... the difference in the entries is relevant while using blacklist ...

> Since they were automatically added to the blacklist, why are they different?

... because Pegasus will do a substring search for the complete string in the blacklist. So - i.e. the first entry will match only, if FancyName will not change. Realy needed is only the third convetion which will match too the missing fifth convention:

5. name@domain.com (Fancy Name)

What happenend there may be, that Pegasus first found  the first entry. Than found one from same mailaddress but with blank in Fancy Name (which is a different string from first one), than one without any fancyname and so on.

> How can I check if there are same addresses or same domains?

CTRL-F (find) will do in distributionlists (blacklist in Pegasus at least is a distributionlist) ...

bye   Olaf