June 1, 2006
4:18 p.m.
At 12:14 PM -0400 2006-06-01, Carl Fink wrote:
I actually did restart Mailman, with no errors, and so far it seems to have taken my changes. If mm_cfg is just there to be read from, why is it a script instead of a text file /etc/mailman?
Because with a text /etc/mailman.cf configuration file, you then have to write a program to parse that content and to deal with all possible exceptions.
When the configuration is done in the Python language in a Python script, you can let Python do all the parsing, and do the equivalent of "#include" in order to pull in all your configuration details.
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