Bug#340503: [Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#340503: acknowledged by developer (Your bug report about Mailman in Debian)

[Lionel Elie Mamane]

tags 340503 +confirmed
severity 340503 important
thanks

On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 11:52:30PM +0000, Matthew Vernon wrote:

>>> foundation:              "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper post foundation"

>>> Now it has to look like:

>>> foundation:                "|/var/lib/foundation/mail/mailman post foundation"

>> Besides, there is a symlink in /var/lib/mailman/mail from wrapper
>> to mailman, so the old alias file entries will just work, won't it?
>> Or am I completely confused?

> You're missing the point that there are a pile of new aliases
> created, and some of the arguments are changed too: admin and
> request were previously mailowner and mailcmd.

Argh. Yes. So here's what I plan to do:

 - If MTA is Manual (or not set in mm_cfg), then display a debconf
   note about it.

 - If MTA is Postfix, run bin/genaliases automatically.

 - If MTA is None, don't do anything.

 - Replace the compatibility symlink with a wrapper script that maps
   the old commands to the new commands, so that it works as well as
   it can in the Manual case before the admin has intervened.

The thing was already documented in README.Debian, but that's not
enough, indeed.

> The worst problem is that the return-path has changed.

>From what to what? It is list-bounces now AFAIK, but what was it
before? list-owner or list-admin?

-- 
Lionel