[Listwork] Change MAILMAN_SITE_LIST?

[ansti]

On 02/10/2006 Alster wrote:
> In /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py I don't see an 'owner' variable but I see this:
> 
> #-------------------------------------------------------------
> # The name of the list Mailman uses to send password reminders
> # and similar. Don't change if you want mailman-owner to be
> # a valid local part.
> MAILMAN_SITE_LIST = 'mailman'
> 
> So the mailman-owner at lists.indymedia.org address is actually assembled from
>   MAILMAN_SITE_LIST + '-owner' suffix + '@' + mailing list FQDN
> instead of being configurable. Seemingly someone was too lazy to add
> another configuration variable where it would have made sense to do so.

i suggest to go the easy way with alias change (#2) first, but prepare a
patch for mailman to support a MAILMAN_SITE_CONTACT or MAILMAN_SITE_SUPPORT
variable and suggest it to upstream.

Once it is accepted upstream we no longer have to bear with it.

By the way, are you proposing IMC mailman patches to mailman upstream
normally, or do you keep them private?

> 2. Change the mailman-owner alias to point to
> listwork at sos.indymedia.org. People will continue sending email to the
> wrong address but it will end up where it should. This option may
> require crafting and mantaining another IMC patch for Mailman.

this is the way i would go for now as well.

> 4. Replace the %(owner)s variable in all language templates by a new
> Mailman variable '%(support)s', set 'listwork at sos.indymedia.org' as the
> value for this variable in /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py and make Mailman use
> this variable. This option will require python knowledge and
> understanding of Mailman as well as crafting and mantaining another IMC
> patch for Mailman. It also bears the possibility of newly added language
> templates being missed.

this is the way how it should be dealt with in the long term.

...
 jonas
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