Joe Rhett wrote:
On this subject, why does creating a list with the host name set the web interface? In no circumstance that I have ever seen are they the same, except perhaps (in theory) for some hobbyist with a single computer?
$ newlist im@thejones.com
Sets the web interface to 'thejones.com' as well as the mail domain. This doesn't make a lot of sense except in the hobbyist environment. I may be off my rocker, but shouldn't this syntax set the mail domain and force you to change the web URL manually?
Well, the help for newlist (bin/newlist --help) is pretty clear that the notation name@domain is not the e-mail address of the list but just a way of specifying the web domain.
<quote> You can specify the domain to create your new list in by spelling the listname like so:
mylist@www.mydom.ainwhere `www.mydom.ain' should be the base hostname for the URL to this virtual hosts's lists. </quote>
Still, I think you have a point. Mailman/Cgi/create.py checks in the case where VIRTUAL_HOST_OVERVIEW is on to see if the hostname is in VIRTUAL_HOSTS.
if mm_cfg.VIRTUAL_HOST_OVERVIEW and \
not mm_cfg.VIRTUAL_HOSTS.has_key(hostname):
safehostname = Utils.websafe(hostname)
request_creation(doc, cgidata,
_('Unknown virtual host: %(safehostname)s'))
returnPerhaps bin/newlist should do something similar.
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