[EdLUG] Hello from a lurker and why is the list configured this way?

[Edinburgh Linux Users Group]

It would be great if we could just use existing functionality within
Mailman to do this- I'm a big
believer that the less complex a solution the better.


On 27/03/2016 18:41, Edinburgh Linux Users Group wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 06:17:12PM +0100, Edinburgh Linux Users Group wrote:
>>    I believe it dealt with all of them. 
>  
> Well the current python (HyperArch.py) does seem to scan the body as
> well as the headers and just has variations on:
>
> 	if mm_cfg.ARCHIVER_OBSCURES_EMAILADDRS:
> 		text = re.sub('@', atmark, text)
>
> so these cases could be changed reasonably easily to replace the RHS
> (domain name) too.
>
> We'd need to take this to the lugmaster list to see if everyone on the
> server would be happy with this, or whether we also need to add
> something to make it a per-list setting.
>
> An alternative would be to see if there's another archiver available
> and already packaged for Debian that does already have this feature
> which we could install on the server and use instead for this list.
>
> Alasdair


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