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[Miles Fidelman <address@concealed>]

Steve Shipway wrote:
> > Are the settings for the patch global, or do they have to be applied
> > list-by-list?
> The way I wrote the patch, they need to be applied per-list.
>
> Originally I wrote them as global settings, but I felt that - particularly 
> for a unofficial patch - they should default to normal behaviour, and be 'opt 
> in' on a per-list basis.  You'd only need to apply them to lists where you 
> expect external users, which for us is a minority of our full set, though for 
> some users it may be all lists...
>
> The defaults for the settings are set in the patch, but it could be altered 
> to make them seek out global settings instead.  I have an updated version I'm 
> working on that adds more options for when to apply the changes to the From 
> header; I'll see about adding a global default setting as well.

In our case, the lists are all external (I'm hosting a bunch of local 
community groups of various sorts, on hardware left over from a former 
web development and hosting business) - and it seems that a lot of 
people use Yahoo email accounts, at least for list participation (though 
that seems to be diminishing daily :-).
> If you have a lot of lists and want to apply globally, then you could write a 
> simple script to append to the list config file and call sympa.pl to recreate 
> the .bin files?

If I'm reading your message properly - all I really have to do is change 
the defaults in the patch, and that would have global effect.  Is that 
right?

Again, thanks for contributing this - I'd be lost going in and patching 
the Sympa code - my perl skills are horrendously rusty (such that they 
ever where).

Best,

Miles Fidelman



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