[BlueOnyx:11157] Re: Mailman in Blue Onyx

[William Thackrey]

Michael, with all due respect, the mailing list implementation in BlueOnyx IS broken if, like many of us have done in enterprise IT for years, the list is to be used as a "role" or "department" account: for example "engineering at mydomain.com".  I don't see how a site prefix fixes that problem.  I old get the behavior I needed with majordomo and with other implementations of MailMan.

At this point, unless I can hack a solution for this, we're going to have to move these domains off of BlueOnyx and onto virtualized Linux hosts.  Partial integration into the BlueOnyx GUI is far less important to me than having it function correctly.  I'd be perfectly happy using MailMan's web interface.


On Aug 10, 2012, at 3:03 AM, Michael Stauber <mstauber at blueonyx.it> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
>>> Mailman
> 
> Like said: If one really wants mailing lists without numerical prefixes,
> then there is the "Site Prefix" feature. If it's enabled, lists will be
> created with the site prefix instead of the numerical prefix.
> 
> Tobias wrote:
>> I would highly appreciate if the lists are created without prefix.
>> And I even cannot see the need of the prefix. As far as I can see
>> it is only used as an email address and this already has to be
>> unique for every domain.
> 
> That requires additional checks to determine if that alias (all all
> iterations of it used by the list) are free, which can be done in a
> handler. But if "Site Prefix" is enabled for that site, you get a
> prefixed mailing list address again. If we exclude mailing lists from
> prefixing, then that defeats the purpose of the "Site Prefix" feature.
> 
> Rickard wrote:
>> it shouldn't be to hard to add a public alias to the name, Michael?
> 
> Possible,it boils down to two days of coding and testing at the least to
> make sure it all survives CMU as well. But for what gain?
> 
> Guys, I look at it this way: The mailing lists work. If it ain't broken,
> don't fix it. Especially not for something that's just cosmetics and eye
> candy AND already provided through another feature: Site Prefix.
> 
> EVENTUALLY this might be tackled in one way or another. But I don't see
> it happen this year. Unless someone else does it.
> 
> -- 
> With best regards
> 
> Michael Stauber
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