Robot verification for --make_alias_file command line option

[racke]

sympa@local-sympa:~$ /usr/local/sympa/bin/sympa.pl --make_alias_file --robot nevairbe.example.com
Sympa aliases file /var/spool/sympa/tmp/sympa_aliases.1519 was made.  You probably need to install it in your SMTP engine.
sympa@local-sympa:~$ cat /var/spool/sympa/tmp/sympa_aliases.1519 
#
#	Aliases for all Sympa lists open on nevairbe.example.com
#

Sympa produces alias file for bogus robot and doesn't give any error message back to the user.

[racke]

@ikedas How can I check whether $robot contains a valid robot?

[ikedas]

I can't get it. Have you created configuration of a new robot? How did you set up list_aliases.tt2 (this can be prepared by each robot)? What does the aliases file contain?

[racke]

nevairbe.example.com is a fake robot and in my setup I have an alias file for each robot. The point is that the value from --robot is not validated and Sympa generates an empty file.

Therefore I would like to check whether the value is $robot actually is a robot. Please let me know which code can be used for that so I can provide a pull request for this problem.

[ikedas]

Oh I see.
Currently we may use Conf::valid_robot() to check if a domain is vaild mail domain.