Developers of Sympa

[Olivier Salaun - CRU <address@concealed>]

Hi Alexander,

You're not the first (probably not the last) requesting this feature
and we wish to introduce it in Sympa. 
We haven't done it yet because :

1. it is not requested by so many users (especially not by French Universities we are working for)
2. it could be a long job and can bring unstability in the software
   

But here is a quick list of what would need to be changed :

1. The full list address (including the Virtual robot) should be stored in the subscriber_table
2. All references to a list in the code should refer to the robot as well. All List::new() calls should have the robot parameter set
3. Files in spools should all have a name including the robot
4. The bounce subdirectories should include the robot
   
5. ......maybe it's not such a big job...
   

Alexander Marx wrote:
> is
> anybody working on a fully vhost-aware version of sympa? 
>   
> e.g. to allow several virtual robots to have similar list names like
> address@concealed and address@concealed ... 
>   
> i know the faq says that one should simply install several sympa
> versions, but i'm not really happy about that .. 
>   
> this results in quite a bit of maintenance work within  an isp
> environment (lots of domains/robots/installations/dbs, 
> all the customizations, updates, etc.. ) 
>   
> i've already begun hacking up a 4.x version (cvs checkout from mid
> september, w/ postgres backend and exim mta), in order to 
> support this feature, but there is still a long way to go .. 
>   
> so if anybody is already working on it or has some pointers, that would
> be great. 
>   
-- 
Olivier Salaun
Comite Reseau des Universites