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On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 02:36:53PM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: > Python::Serialise::Marshal is done and up on CPAN. It seems to be able > to read Mailman config files speedily and correctly. Nifty. > Anyway, I was looking at a dump of a typical mailman config and > indentified these features which need to be emulated. Comments are where stuff probably would live, based on a quick think. > MembersOnly > Automatically bounce mail with certain headers Is that the same as just dropping things with X-Loop set? > Set reply address of list Config of ReplyTo > List owner list.owner - or does that mean something else? > Moderated New plugin > News gateway Finish the NNTP plugin > User options (no mail/html mail/text only) Spit. > Auto respond time out period (for subscribing) Defer queue has an expiry date, just need to inspect/purge that. > Web page url > Bounce handling > Users (and passwords in plain text, bad Mailman) Well we're going to do that same way - it's simpler for users if we do "I've forgotten my password, what was it" rather than "I've forgotten my password, generate me a new random stream of crap I can forget again" > Acceptable user aliases IIRC mailman just has a per-list 'and these addresses are allowed', which I irrationally don't like. > Max message size > Notify admin(s) on membership changes Happens on subscribe, dunno about unsub. > Digest members Argh, the pain! > Unsub message Customisable? > Subject prefix SubjectTag > Mail footer (bumpf to add to end of the mail) > Must be mailed to list Whu? > Private (i.e is it advertised) > Membership must be approved Of those last two the previous is fine as a property of list, but the latter gives me pause for sticking it there. Probably it's a config option to the Command/Subscribe plugin. > Some of these we already have corresponding plugins for. > > Anybody think of anything else? Was that a mailman version 1 or 2 feature set? -- Richard Clamp <richardc@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
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