[jira] [Resolved] (WHIMSY-241) Allow for GMail aliasing when checking subscriptions

["Sebb (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Sebb resolved WHIMSY-241.
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    Resolution: Fixed

Added GMail aliasing

> Allow for GMail aliasing when checking subscriptions
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>
>                 Key: WHIMSY-241
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WHIMSY-241
>             Project: Whimsy
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Sebb
>            Priority: Major
>
> GMail allows users to create aliases by appending '+alias' to the user name.
> It also ignores '.' chars in the user name.
> Some subscriptions to private and security lists make use of this feature.
> This means that some email subscription are not recognised by Whimsy, and a PMC member may be flagged as not being subscribed.
> It would be useful to allow for such aliases when comparing subscriptions.
> The ASF mail system also allows for aliases by appending '-alias' to the user name.
> Unfortunately there are some valid ids which contain '-' characters; this makes it much harder to do the matching without risking a false positive, so it's probably best not to try to implement it.



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