[Mailman-Developers] canonical MM-List-Name

[Andrew D. Clark]

On Tuesday 14 March 2006 14:53, Rich Johnson wrote:
> On Mar 14, 2006, at 3:44 PM, Andrew D. Clark wrote:
> > I've made a small patch to HTMLFormatter.py to provide for a
> > canonical (aka
> > lowercase) list name.  This is handy for a variety of reasons.
> >
> > 383a384
> >
> >>             '<mm-lc-list-name>' : self.real_name.lower(),
> >
> > I don't really care if it is called mm-lc-list-name or mm-canonical-
> > list-name
> > or what not, I simply find the regularized name useful for some
> > applications.
> > Any comments?
>
> In general I think this is a good idea.
>
> But I have two and a half questions:
> - What is the impact on existing lists which might have case
> sensitive names?  Would a converter script be necessary?

None, I think.  This just provides a lower-cased name for the HTML templates.  
It's merely an addition and would need to be explicitly referenced to be 
used.

> - What does it mean for MTA configurations?   (I'm thinking exim)
> AFAIK, the local-part (i.e. listname) of an email address is case
> sensitive, though the domain-part is not.

Again, none.  This wouldn't change any existing behavior. 

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Andrew Clark
Campus Network Programmer
University of California, Santa Barbara
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