regex based groups and email address changing

[Joel Peshkin]

Daniel Berlin wrote:

> I have user groups based on regexes (like *.gcc.gnu.org)
> If people change their email address, so that it doesn't match the 
> regex anymore, are they auto-added to the approriate groups they used 
> to be part of?
> I've never seen a bug about it, so I assume they are, but i figured 
> whoever implemented email address changing is on this list, and would 
> know.
>
> --Dan 


For group regexps applied in 2.16.* and prior, the regexp only applies 
when an account is initially created and is then indistinguishable from 
an explicitly granted group permission.  For 2.17 and on, the group 
regexps are applied continuously so that a user will gain and lose group 
permissions as the email is changed.

-Joel