[Mailman-Users] Multiple nntp hosts

Alan Chandler alan at chandlerfamily.org.uk
Sun Aug 14 18:43:26 CEST 2005


On Sunday 14 August 2005 17:26, Brad Knowles wrote:
> At 3:50 PM +0100 2005-08-14, Alan Chandler wrote:
> >  Is it possible to set the NNTP_PASSWORD and NNTP_USERNAME for a mailing
> > list to a different value than in mm_cfg.py (or the defaults.py if the
> > former is silent on those variables).
>
> 	Not without modifying the source code, no.  As far as Mailman is
> concerned, there is one and only one news server, news account &
> password, etc... for the entire installation.
>
> 	Feel free to provide a patch that provides the behaviour you're
> looking for, however.

Or alternatively look at using leafnode as a moderator between the two news 
servers and mailman! :-)

Especially as my python skills are non existant

-- 
Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk



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