[ILUG] list namespace in Mailman 2.1.4

Paul Reilly paulr at maths.tcd.ie
Sun Mar 14 22:14:51 GMT 2004


Thanks Justin,

> > I suppose I could do some munging of the addresses as they go through
> > postfix, but then the listnames will look weird to people.
>
>   d1-talk:                "| /usr/lib/mailman/bin/whatever post d1-talk"
>   d2-talk:                "| /usr/lib/mailman/bin/whatever post d2-talk"

Yes, I did have something like that before.
But if the user does a 'list_lists', or looks at the list-overview web
page they will still see the incorrect list name, no?

> Then set Reply-To, list hostnames etc. explicitly in the MM admin
> panel.
>
Yes, thats a good idea.
Didn't think of that.

> I'm not sure I see how it's much harder to understand than before;
> a few more features, but generally about the same complexity level
> IMO.
>
Yes, but you're a Unix software developer :)
There's definetly more options, and I think some clarity has
been lost. IMO without a FAQ to the users, they would be quite
lost...

Paul




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