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On Tuesday, Sep 24, 2002, at 11:04 Europe/London, Roger Burton West wrote: > > * Email-based administration. I don't want to give shell access to > everybody who's a listmaster on my server, and many of them have > cookies > permanently turned off if they have web browsers at all. > > * A storage system which creates one file per list (possibly in > addition > to other things). Forwhy? To avoid having to edit aliases ever again. My half-formed notion was that nacho could output a fully-formed aliases file for all configured lists, which you then include somehow. The exim configuration magic is cool and all, but I don't want to do anything more complex than alias files for the moment, since they're everywhere, and fit in my brain. > * Dunno how good the bounce handling is. How good is it? Non-existant. > I strongly suggest that you have at least the option of sending the > same > message to multiple envelope recipients, probably sorted by domain. > VERP > is all very well, but the load on bandwidth is excessive on a large > mailing list. My own project - which never got off the ground, which is > why I'm here - was to use VERP for a configurable percentage of > addressees, with the specific recipients changed over time, so that > eventually you'd get a VERPed bounce message from an address that was > causing problems, but you didn't have to make every single message to > every single subscribe a separate deal. VERP? Assume that I'm an RFC-ignorant lazy programmer who just got impatient at people half-planning but never implementing MLMs :) -- Richard Clamp <richardc@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>There's stuff above here
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