Hi Barry, it's just a matter of seconds to add this enabled flag to the django webui, just let me know once it is in core.
Am Dienstag, den 12.07.2011, 11:10 -0400 schrieb Barry Warsaw: > On Jul 11, 2011, at 06:37 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > > >With our current setup the disabled (or "graveyarded") list is removed > >from the /var/lib/mailman/lists dir and the aliases regenerated, so > >the MTA bounces messages to it and the admin interface for it cannot > >be logged into. Disabled lists are listed in a separate page in the > >web interface to the normal listinfo page. Some disabled lists might > >get their archives removed and some not. > > I think this approach would actually be fairly easy to implement in the core, > with additional ui considerations in the new web ui. It could be a matter of > just adding the .enabled flag to mailing lists, and re-running the MM3 moral > equivalent of genaliases when that flag changes. All the data associated with > the mailing list would remain in the database. > > The web ui would then look at the .enabled flag to decide where and how to > display the mailing list information, and whether to allow logins, etc. But > it would still be able to get (and probably set) attributes on the mailing > list. > > >I think bouncing at the MTA is slightly sub-optimal and that mailman > >could generate a more informative bounce indicating how to contact the > >server admin to get the list revived. Probably in the web interface > >there could be a "disabled lists" category. Server admins would > >probably want to be able to login to the disabled lists in the web > >interface, but maybe not the list admins. > > Should you still be able to contact a disabled list's owners? I think if > you're just going to bounce messages addressed to mydisabledlist-*@example.com > and the text is static, then it's probably best to point those aliases to a > very simple replybot service (I have one I've been toying with) so it doesn't > increase the load on Mailman. > > -Barry > _______________________________________________ > Mailman-Developers mailing list > Mailman-Developers@python.org > http://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: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/benedict.stein%40googlemail.com > > Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 -- Einen schönen Tag wünscht: Benedict Stein
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