Re: [Mailman-Developers] Renaming a list

On Oct 23, 2017, at 11:48, Aurelien Bompard <aurelien@bompard.org> wrote:
It is. The thinking is that whatever email addresses end up funneling to a list is really outside of Mailman’s control. That’s really part of your MTA’s configuration, and acceptable aliases are just a way of telling Mailman to expand its implicit address logic.
Correct. List name is mutable but list-id is not, even if you move it to a different domain!
-Barry

On Mon, Oct 23, 2017, at 08:59 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
As I understand, AcceptableAliases are defined as regular expressions, what if Mailman put the values that are a valid list name to transport_maps? Converting regex to a listname doesn't sound like a straight forward thing to me though.
This most definitely adds some complexity for unique checks of Listnames. I am not sure if we already check acceptable alias rules for existing mailing lists to make sure they don't match any new list created. We'd have to do it if we start putting acceptable aliases in transport maps.
As a feature, it could be helpful to have multiple posting addresses for a single List. Are there any major downsides to doing this?
-- Abhilash Raj maxking@asynchronous.in

On Mon, Oct 23, 2017, at 08:59 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
As I understand, AcceptableAliases are defined as regular expressions, what if Mailman put the values that are a valid list name to transport_maps? Converting regex to a listname doesn't sound like a straight forward thing to me though.
This most definitely adds some complexity for unique checks of Listnames. I am not sure if we already check acceptable alias rules for existing mailing lists to make sure they don't match any new list created. We'd have to do it if we start putting acceptable aliases in transport maps.
As a feature, it could be helpful to have multiple posting addresses for a single List. Are there any major downsides to doing this?
-- Abhilash Raj maxking@asynchronous.in
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