Mike Burton wrote:

Hi Mick,

Dan...and I'd sent this to you privately to try to clarify off-list, but I guess my desires are secondary to yours. Oh well, so be it.

I take it I didn't make myself perfectly clear. I understand that this is issued per user (thus the name personalization). At the bottom of my lists mails it reads (using user_optionsurl) http://jo.birdsense.com/mailman/options/[listname]/mburton%40jo.birdsens e.com - this is my mail systems address (jo.birdsense.com).

What I would expect is http://www.birdsense.com/mailman/options/[listname]/mburton%40jo.birdsen se.com which is my web server's address. Note the www instead of jo in the address.

This is what is shown at the bottom of the mailman-users list mails - http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/mburton%40jo.birdse nse.com. Again I would suspect that it might want to read www.python.org instead of mail.python.org, although I am not sure of this one as I am not the admin for that system and really don't know how they have it setup and configured.

Am I completely missing something here? Are my expectations that it would use the web server's address unreasonable?

No, you're not being unreasonable; you just asked a question I couldn't understand.

So you mean "the hyperlink for the user options has a hostname which is apparently wrong; it looks like it's the hostname of the mail address rather than the hostname of the web server". It is, of course, a coincidence; if you used dan.mick@sun.com's options, the link would not be http://sun.com/...., but rather http://jo.birdsense.com/..., of course. So no, it's not the domain of the email address at all.

Your question is really "why do the hyperlinks in my user-options links use the wrong hostname".

The problem is likely in your DEFAULT_ settings in mm_cfg.py (or Defaults.py). See the comments in Defaults.py around DEFAULT_URL_HOST (assuming you're using 2.1 latest or near to it).

Thanks, Mike

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-----Original Message----- From: Dan Mick [mailto:Dan.Mick@sun.com] Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 3:00 PM To: Mike Burton Subject: Re: [Mailman-Developers] Personalization question

Mike Burton wrote:

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Is there a reason that user_optionsurl returns the mailers

address and

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domain instead of the web sites address and domain? Is

this intentional

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or should a bug report be generated on this? If it's

intentional, what

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is the reasoning?

I guess I don't quite understand; the whole point of "the user's options" is that it's per-user, yes...what would you expect?...

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