[Mailman-Developers] Translation F'up2 => Reply-To

2004-01-31 Thread Michael Heydekamp
Hi, anybody here who could deliver Python code for the following? In news2mail direction, I'd like to "translate" the F'up2 header (containing one or more newsgroups) to the Reply-To: header by preserving any already existing Reply-To addresses. One of four mailing lists is assigned to each of f

Re: [Mailman-Developers] A bit of perspective ....

2004-01-31 Thread Jeff Warnica
I suppose it can be, but it is a question of where you implement your security. If mailman is to use SQL to store preferences then it is up to mm to deal with what records a user can update. If the mm interface to LDAP goes through one master LDAP account, then it is still mm's job... But if mm bin

Re: [Mailman-Developers] A bit of perspective ....

2004-01-31 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
Isn't LDAP a bit of a security hassle? I would think it is pretty common to have Mailman running on a machine along side MySQL, Apache and and MTA of some sort but wouldn't throwing in LDAP be more like requiring people install a CVS daemon to use Mailman? I'm no LDAP guru but from what I hav

Re: [Mailman-Developers] A bit of perspective ....

2004-01-31 Thread moron
On January 31, 2004 11:10 am, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: > Mailman <-> LDAP as an interface means that anything that can generate > an LDAP interface can talk to it. so perhaps the best thing to do is > come up with an LDAP interface, define how the LDAP data should look, > and then create a set of My

Re: [Mailman-Developers] A bit of perspective ....

2004-01-31 Thread Dale Newfield
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Dale Newfield wrote: > if we want to start these discussions before March. Oh--I forgot to mention--I'll be joining Barry and whoever in March for Sunday and Monday of the sprint, and I've got a bunch of SQL experience... ...wasn't somebody asking if anybody fit that descripti

Re: [Mailman-Developers] A bit of perspective ....

2004-01-31 Thread Dale Newfield
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Kevin McCann wrote: > I'm wondering if some inroads can be made even before the sprint session > in March. I can show you and Barry the DB stuff I had in mind and maybe > we can jumpstart from there. I likewise had an abortive attempt to make the api changes necessary to fold

Re: [Mailman-Developers] A bit of perspective ....

2004-01-31 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On Jan 31, 2004, at 10:53 AM, Jeff Warnica wrote: I feel bad about jumping in to this discussion, and not necessaraly being prepared to offer any real help, but anyway. LDAP may be a better data[base|sink] for configuration data then SQL. actually, Jeff has a point. I was muttering to myself abo

Re: [Mailman-Developers] A bit of perspective ....

2004-01-31 Thread Jeff Warnica
I feel bad about jumping in to this discussion, and not necessaraly being prepared to offer any real help, but anyway. LDAP may be a better data[base|sink] for configuration data then SQL. It may be harder to work with (only because less people have experience with it), and it may be less usefull t

Re: [Mailman-Developers] AOL's requirements for spam complaints

2004-01-31 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 23:49, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: > On Jan 30, 2004, at 12:13 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > > It's possible. But then again who knows what the email landscape will > > look like in 5 years? I'm betting it'll look a /lot/ different than it > > does today, unless it doesn't. > > Rai