[ mailman-Bugs-975145 ] Description of -owner field is wrong

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Bugs item #975145, was opened at 2004-06-18 08:20
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Category: None
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Heiko (hgerstung)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Description of -owner field is wrong

Initial Comment:
In the web interface, list administration section "General 
options" there is a field called "umbrella_member_suffix", 
which is "-owner" by default. 

In the detailed help for this field it reads:
When "umbrella_list" is set to indicate that this list has 
other mailing lists as members, then administrative 
notices like confirmations and password reminders need 
to not be sent to the member list addresses, but rather 
to the owner of those member lists. In that case, the 
value of this setting is appended to the member's 
account name for such notices. `-owner' is the typical 
choice. This setting has no effect when "umbrella_list" 
is "No".

The last sentence indicates that this field is not used 
anywhere when the field umbrella_list is set to No. This 
is wrong, because the owner address is used in 
automatic replies sent to non-subscripted users trying to 
send a mail to the list, which is automatically rejected. 

So, I see two possibilities:
Change the description of the field, saying that this 
suffix also is used for building the list owner address 
(e.g. list "xxx" means a xxx-owner at domain mail address) 
or (my favourite way) introduce a new field for setting 
up a list owner address AND be able to edit this "your 
message has been rejected" mail message (e.g. using a 
template for this), because even when I edit the 
LC_MESSAGES file, I have no chance to edit the english 
texts without diving into the sources, which makes 
upgrades a crap. 

Great software, keep on!
Kind regards,
Heiko



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