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[micah <address@concealed>]

Alexandre Hannud Abdo <address@concealed> writes:

> On Dom 12 Jan 2014 09:15:21 BRST, kwadronaut wrote:
>> I wonder if it doesn't make more sense to write a mitm sympa plugin:
>> Receive mail, ditch most headers (keep the message-id, threading is
>> great), rewrite the <from>, push to sympa. Might be easier to maintain.
>> You could get some ideas from (amongst others) schleuder2:
>> https://schleuder.nadir.org.
>> Did you have a look at http://www.sympa.org/contribs/index ? There are
>> quite a few plugins that deal with authentication, authorization and if
>> you play buzzwordbingo: SSO and CAS and LDAP… You might not have to
>> reinvent wheels.
>
> I don't see how I could simply write a mitm plugin, because I must
> access the sympa user database to get the names for the users, and I
> must access the list config options to integrate with the web interface.
>
> I haven't seen any documentation on how to do those things as a plugin.
> In fact, contributor documentation on the website is kinda poor, and
> links to what looks like a devel mailing list are broken.
>
> In any case, what I want is so close to the existing the anonymity
> feature that in terms of development and maintenance it still seems
> easier to write a patch and follow any changes to that code.
>
> In fact, I already coded what I believe are all the necessary changes.
>
> I would really appreciate if someone involved in sympa development could
> take a look. The patch is <100 lines.
>
> http://paste.debian.net/76070/

Thanks for doing this work - I think we would be very interested in
seeing this integrated into Sympa. I know that having a list
configuration for our users to be able to turn this on would be
something our users would appreciate, they certainly have asked for it!

micah