Howdy -- I apologize for the delay in response, but I can certainly help you move forward with this.
Rather than muck with an already creaky and hack-laden Mailman instance, I'd prefer to do this on the MTA side -- I can create a router to conditionally reroute traffic for bug-gnu-emacs elsewhere -- I just need to know the envelope and client parameters. -jag > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sat Mar 29 15:57:34 2008]: > > Hi, > > We're trying to use a Debbugs to manage bug reports for the > Emacs project. For various reason, it is necessary to reuse the > [EMAIL PROTECTED] email address for bug submission as well as the > bug-gnu-emacs mailing-list for distribution of the discussions about > bugs, so we need to insert the Debbugs in between the > [EMAIL PROTECTED] address and the bug-gnu-emacs Mailman list. > > Stephen J. Turnbull says that a clean way to do it is to add a special > Mailman Handler for the bug-gnu-emacs list which would redirect to > Debbugs all the email that is not coming from Debbugs. Can you help > us > out here? > > > > Stefan > > > >>>>> "Sylvain" == Sylvain Beucler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 09:01:48AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > >> > >>>>> "Sylvain" == Sylvain Beucler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 09:55:11PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> > >> > >> >> All email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] should not go to > Mailman, > >> > >> >> but instead it should be forwarded to > >> > >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> >> > >> > >> >> Then all mail currently sent from Emacsbugs to the > >> > >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list should be > distributed to > >> > >> >> the members of the bug-gnu-emacs mailing list. > >> > >> > >> > Well, there's no magic. The only working > >> > >> > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" adress is "bug-gnu- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]", > >> > >> > so if you want to make that one point to somewhere else, we > need to > >> > >> > rename the Mailman mailing list. > >> > >> I don't think this is true. AFAIK Mailman knows nothing and cares > >> less about the envelope recipient. > >> > >> So you should currently have an alias (sendmail-style, and I'm > kinda > >> guessing here, depends on Mailman version and suchlike) > >> > >> bug-gnu-emacs: "|/var/lib/mailman/bin/mailman post > >> bug-gnu-emacs" > >> > >> Change that to > >> > >> bug-gnu-emacs: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> bug-gnu-emacs-really: "|/var/lib/mailman/bin/mailman post bug-gnu- > emacs" > >> > >> Obviously you need the right configuration of the debbugs program > at > >> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, pointing back to "bug-gnu-emacs- > really". > >> Season nomenclature to taste (-recipients made line-length 82 > columns ;-). > >> > >> Note that you now have three addresses where spam can get into the > >> pipeline. I don't know how these "internal" addresses leak out, > but > >> they sometimes do. So you may wish to restrict the envelope sender > to > >> bug-gnu-emacs-really to be "emacsbugs". You probably also want to > >> ensure that traffic to "submit" always goes via the "bug-gnu-emacs" > >> alias, or you need to make "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" be > an > >> alias of bug-gnu-emacs in the Mailman interface. > > > Hi, > > > We don't have root access to the lists.gnu.org computer, so this > kind > > of thing is outside our reach. Please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] to > see > > if they can do something. > > > Consider that lists.gnu.org hosts thousands of lists - this is > > mass-hosting. There isn't a series of hand-made aliases, but a set > of > > custom Exim rules that deliver all @gnu.org and @nongnu.org to > Mailman > > or other places (such as fencepost) dependending on various factors. > > > -- > > Sylvain > > > -- Joshua Ginsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software Foundation - Senior Systems Administrator
