I agree that the mail gid's in particular should be changed to accept a set of calling gid's.
i patched an older version for this change some time ago. i'm sure that that patch won't apply to the current version, so i'll try to cook up another one over this weekend.
scott
On Sat, Jun 20, 1998 at 03:19:49PM +0200, Gergely Madarasz wrote: | Hello! | | I've just found mailman and i like it wery much, it seems much nicer then | any other mailing list server i've seen. Here are some problems I've | found: | I tried to convert a list with about 300 normal and 220 digested | subscribers to mailman with convert_list. It always failed with something | like fork: resource currently not available ... it tries to send too many | mails at once. | The second problem is: the mail wrapper accepts exactly one gid to be run | as. This makes it difficult to package up mailman in a binary package, for | example for debian linux. I'm a debian developer myself btw. The problem | is that we have several MTA-s available in the distribution (sendmail, | smail, exim, zmailer, and as a non-free addition, even qmail), and each | can use different gids, and even one can be configured to use a gid other | then the default. So it would be very nice if it could be configured to | accept a gid from a set ... | | Greg | | -- | Madarasz Gergely gorgo@caesar.elte.hu gorgo@linux.rulez.org | It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry. | Egy pingvinre gyakorlatilag lehetetlen haragosan nezni. | HuLUG: http://www.cab.u-szeged.hu/local/linux/ | | | _______________________________________________ | Mailman-Developers maillist - Mailman-Developers@python.org | http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers |