Developers of Sympa

[Aumont <address@concealed>]

address@concealed wrote:
>  
>   Attached is a proposal for a new object class for encapsulating
> messages read by Sympa, which would solve the following problems:
>   * factorize lots of code duplication;
>   * get rid of /tmp/smime-sender$$ (src/tools.pl line 351);
>   * solve bug named "Broken S/MIME signature" in CVS KNOWNBUGS;
Your mail probably refer to a solved bug. KNOWNBUGS is not uptodate !
http://listes.cru.fr/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/sympa/src/tools.pl?rev=1.67&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
)
>   * improve extensibility by not having to special-case many function
>     prototypes (e.g. do we have to pass the headers, the
>         body, or both to this function? Never mind, let us pass a Message).
> 
>   The impact on existing code is minimal: to begin with, we would just
> replace all invocations of a MIME::Parser with a
> Message->read("/some/filename"), and the inheritance mechanisms of
> Perl would do the rest (Messages are MIME::Entities which also are
> Mail::Internet's).

That's a idea we had, and we are very pleased if some one can contribute
to do it. You are welcome.

There is also a two importante features related to S/MIME to introduce
into Sympa. As a IDX-PKI developper, aren't you the right person to
introduce it into Sympa ?
 -a LDAP search in order to find the user certificate
 -check revocation when using a certificate based on CRL (that already
  can be updated by the task_manager)

Regards

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Serge Aumont        Comité Réseaux des Universités
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