Because I don't have access to an always connected server I can control, I've pursued the slightly eccentric strategy of trying to use mailman via a dial-up ISP. This ISP allows me to receive mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for arbitrary xxx, and I've hooked up exim on my Linux system to process it appropriately from there. Obviously, the web interface is usable only by me in this setup.
I'm writing for several reasons: 1. I've done this by modifying mailman to put an arbitary prefix before the list name. If I ever get that working adequately, would there be interest in incorporating it into the main mailman? I will not be offended if the answer is "No, too esoteric." But I thought I'd ask as long as I'm doing it. 2. If anyone has any advice along the lines of don't abuse mailman to do this, use x instead, I'm all ears. Even better would be sites that would host some fairly low volume non-profit lists for free :) (One reason I'm looking into this is that I've been using topica, but their registration process has become increasingly intrusive.) 3. I have a number of specific questions about the code. a) Originally I found a few methods in MailList.py centered on getListAddress; I thought a change here would be enough. It's since become clear it's not, and judging by the number of uses of internal_name there may be a lot of code to change. I did not want to change internal_name directly because I was hoping to keep the undecorated name for some purposes (e.g., directory names on disk, program's own use, some identification). Seeing all the uses, I'm considering changing the code at internal_name() rather than trying to track down all the uses. Comments? b) I added DEFAULT_EMAIL_PREFIX to mm_config, with a default of an empty string. Is that an appropriate name for the variable? c) How do I make the prefix show up in the through the web pages, and how do I categorize it onto one of those pages? d) Am I going to get into trouble declaring the list to be in a domain different from the one I'm running on? (That is, I've told the list its DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST is earthlink.net, though my local machine is in my own made up domain). e) Way down the line I might worry about eliminating references to the web site, since it's only usable by me. Short-term I just plan to put a welcome message saying "Don't try to use this over the web; it won't work." Is there any magic shortcut fixing that up? FYI I've also noted that the VERP regexps need to be massaged to compensate for the extra "+" in the email address. There is probably a clever way of quoting the prefix and incorporating it into the regexps automatically, but for now I did it manually. _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers
