* Stephen J. Turnbull <step...@xemacs.org>: > Patrick Ben Koetter writes: > > > I doubt anyone that igorant of e-mail and how it works will ever > > make it to the MM3 command line client, but yes, such cases do > > exist. > > I think they're actually likely to be reasonably common. > > > However I think the use case "prepare Mailman to handle mail for a > > domain it doesn't handle mail for yet" exists and we should find a > > way to deal with it. > > Indeed. I'm suggesting that the routine could check the DNS and a few > other things, and present the list operator with a TODO list. Sortof > like check_perms.
Where would you start with the TODO list? Where would you end? > > > Deleting a list should be immediate, but I agree it should be confirmed. > > > > ... and it should be possible to pass the confirmation in the command to > make > > it useful in scripts. > > Ooh, that is a very good point. Bessides "possible," the syntax for > doing that should be regular. I'm hopping in on this and I certainly missed most of the discussion on the command line client: Do we have interface guidelines for commands? Shortopts, longopts, interaction, non-interactive behaviour/requirements? > I wonder about distinguishing "yes to this prompt" and "yes to all"? Me too. > Probably scripts should not be using commands that need multiple > confirmations, though. Hmmm, Unix: Do one thing. Do it well. ? -- [*] sys4 AG https://sys4.de, +49 (89) 30 90 46 64 Franziskanerstraße 15, 81669 München Sitz der Gesellschaft: München, Amtsgericht München: HRB 199263 Vorstand: Patrick Ben Koetter, Marc Schiffbauer Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Florian Kirstein _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
