Item8409: Please remove example email address from WebNotify

WebNotify (in all the webs in the Foswiki distribution) helpfully includes an entry with a "bogus" email address ([email protected]). Unfortunately, that entry is live, meaning that when mailnotify runs it generates email to that bogus address.

Now, for most installations this is probably not a problem, but because the mail is sent from a "system" account (the web server user) at my location the inevitable mail rejection bounce gets caught and flagged to the system admin folks (who valiantly watch many things to save us from the hordes at the gates), and I get an earful about improper configuration of web software.

I administer about 8 or so independent wiki installations and with all of their associated webs this comes out to many many bogus emails which get blasted out when I upgrade (in the past I've usually installed from scratch to ensure that cruft gets cleaned out).

Is there any compelling reason to keep the examples in WebNotify live? True, I can manually clean up the topics (which is what I do now), but it'd make my life (and perhaps others') that much simpler. And I wouldn't get irate emails when I've forgotten to fix things up.

Thanks!

-- DiabJerius - 21 Jan 2010

Of course it is nice to have a bullet list with at least one entry. Is there a way to neutralize the address, for instance by putting a dash in front?

-- ArthurClemens - 21 Jan 2010

Or perhaps make it an @example.com email address, and hardcode an exception for this domain?

-- IsaacLin - 22 Jan 2010

Latest code, MailerContrib does not send to the example address. This should not be an issue.

-- GeorgeClark - 22 Mar 2011

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