[Parl-devel] global vs. local community building

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Erik Josefsson (2014-01-17 19:28:51)
> On 01/17/2014 04:31 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> Concretely for Greens/EFA pilot there is an issue yet unresolved 
>> about email address mangling inside the European Parliament, raising 
>> the question if better to have EPFSUG host a list instead.
>
> Your question has a technical side that needs to be put on the table 
> when discussing this matter.
>
> The EPFSUG admins are maintaining a so called "%-hack" that allows 
> people with @europarl addresses to be subscribed and to use mailing 
> lists:
>
>  http://epfsug.eu/wws/lists
>
> Unfortunately, this"%-hack"is poorly documented,but here are some 
> notes:
>
>  http://pad.epfsug.eu/p/epfsug--fixing-sympa
>
> Basically, the EP drops all mails where sender domain and server 
> domain is not the same.
>
> So, the mail server has to re-write, on the fly, the sender domain 
> when distributing a mail from an @europarl subscriber. People 
> whoreceive the mails I send to the EPFSUG lists are therefore getting 
> mails sent from<erik.josefsson%europarl.europa.eu at epfsug.eu> and not 
> from <erik.josefsson at europarl.europa.eu>.
>
> That's why it is called the "%-hack" :-)

Wonderful!

I remember having read that pad page in the past, understanding action 
needed to be done but not really the underlying problem.  Your summary 
here made me understand.  You are truly a poet :-)

(of course rereading the pad page now makes that seem clearly 
understable too - so maybe I as just sober this time around :-P )


 - Jonas

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