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[Olivier Salaün <address@concealed>]

Jeff Abbott a écrit :

> [...] one of the things that has confused me  about Sympa is its 
> aliases for a list, namely listname-owner and  listname-request.  From 
> Majordomo, I and our users are both  accustomed to listname-owner 
> going to the owner(s) of a list.
>
> Why does Sympa use listname-request for this purpose, and when  
> exactly is listname-owner used?  

listname-owner is solely used as the return-path for messages, to 
collect bounces.
On the other end, listname-request is used to contact the list owners.

> And finally, is there a way that I  might be able to switch the two?  
> Is it as simple as pointing  listname-owner at "|/etc/smrsh/queue 
> address@concealed" rather  than having it pipe to bouncequeue? 

If you do so, you'll just send bounces to the list owners and requests 
to the bounces manager. Currently Sympa does not provide a parameters to 
set -owner and -request, therefore you should change the code where it 
is set :

   * for -request, mainly online help and your mail aliases template
   * for -owner, only the sendmail call that sets the return-path