At 12:07 PM -0500 2006-01-03, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> I'm actually thinking we need /less/ magic in command line scripts,
> especially for typical user and admin tasks, because I think
> increasingly, fewer people have access to the command line (or know what
> to do with it when they've got it).
The command-line scripts are not for your average joe-user sites.
The command-line scripts are for people like me, Chuq, Skip, and
anyone else who operates or may want to operate a larger site, and
has not written such a tool for themselves -- at least, not yet.
That is, unless you can build an admin interface that can deal
with hundreds of thousands of queued messages without killing both
the server and the client.
> I'm keen on the idea of making Mailman access available via xmlrpc or
> somesuch, and then we can provide scripts that can be run on the client
> w/o requiring a browser.
I'm not opposed to that, but I'd want to make sure those kinds of
tools could also be run on the server where the list is hosted.
>> IMAP would probably be an improvement over what we have now,
>> assuming you've got a decent IMAP client -- that's not necessarily a
>> valid assumption. But my experience is that IMAP falls down too
>> (especially depending on the IMAP server implementation), and you
>> need something even scalable when that happens.
>
> True. (Aside: why do all mail clients suck so much? :)
All mail servers suck, too.
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