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[Aumont - Comite Reseaux des Universites <address@concealed>]

address@concealed wrote:

> Can we use this to handle "Private post" if users have and send email to the
> list from mutiple mailboxes?
>
> We have a few users who have mutiple mailboxes, but only their primary 
> addreess
> (or registered) was added to lists. Their lists were configured as private 
> post
> (only list members can post).  However, they want to post to the list from all
> their mailboxes (some of them have a crontab sending email out).  I was trying
> to figure out if this can be done with "Your other email address".  
> An account was created for me with my secondary email address to be the
> username.  I added my primary email address to this account as going through
> "Preferences" and "Your other email address", saw both email addresses under
> "your other email addresses".
>
> I was trying to send a test mail to one of the lists which has my primary
> address but Sympa still forwards this to the moderator.  In addition, the
> information is not retained after I logged off and logged back in.  I went to
> Preferences -> Your other email addresses but I do not see my primary and
> secondary there.
>
> Should the information be retained and should Sympa treate the post from the
> secondary email address as the primary one?
>
> Can someone help?

The "user multiple address" feature from Sympa really limited because 
the information are NOT stored in the user table but in a cookie. (at 
the beginning this feature was added as a gadget because LDAP 
authentication provide alternate_email). Because of that bad choice, the 
information can be used only in the web interface.

We plans to add this information in the database in a way we can 
identify in all part of the service.

Serge Aumont

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