[Mailman-Users] 1 email for multiple email-list recipients onsame server?

[Tokio Kikuchi]

Hi,

Matt England wrote:
> At 3/9/2006 10:29 AM, Patrick Bogen wrote:
> 
>>On 3/9/06, Matt England <mengland at mengland.net> wrote:
>>
>>>...and this seems to be the trickiest part: which list becomes the
>>>"primary" one.  I can envision straightforward (even though they are not
>>>easy to implement solutions) to everything except this last point.  :(
>>
>>Easy enough: The first list on the list of lists (does that make
>>sense? The first list that is listed in the message as a recipient) is
>>"primary". If I'm not first, I don't deliver. If I am, go for it.
>>Or the first alphabetically. It doesn't really matter, as long as
>>everything agrees.
> 
> 
> Makes sense.
> 
> I suspect a feature like this will never make it into a pre-3 release, if 
> ever.

Actually, a patch to make it possible is waiting to be integrated in 
mailman-2.2.
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1347962&group_id=103&atid=300103
I want to merge into the CVS trunk as soon as the next mailman-2.1.8 bug 
fix release is out.

>  Alas, this makes for a nice reference thread; "umbrella" lists may 
> be the more-popular answer, at least for now.
> 
> -Matt 

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