On 22/10/2020 05:59, Abhilash Raj wrote:
Like Mark brought up, there is definitely a big missing feature of User management in Postorius. This future management page would be for Site Admins (Superusers) to manage Users and have the ability to change pretty much everything about users including their addresses, memberships and preferences and also be able to wipe off the users from all the databases if they want to. If there are more features than that which folks think should be a part of this, please feel free to add to it. As it is hopefully implied from the description, it is a big task and needs substantial chunk of time, part of which this hasn't been picked up yet.
On this score, from my experience (I manage 3 sites and several hundred lists):
- you also need to disable a particular user's ability to change their name and ban them completely from the site (all lists). /You always get some idiot who uses a foul, abusive or inappropriate name/
- you need the ability to delete a thread or user's postings. /On one occasion I had a formal request from a company's lawyers for one user's email to be deleted or content redacted where quoted (information bound by NDA). That was relatively easy to do in mm2 with shell access and I guess I could even use the same method for mm3 if ever asked to do so again (export mbox, delete archives, delete/redact from mbox and import)/
Yes, this is social media territory, but with the EU/UK DPA (data protection act) and record fines being issued, site admins cannot ignore these - even private/subscriber lists are targets (don't get me started...). I like mm3's ability to have several addresses associated with one account, but it needs the same functionality as mm2's find_member, remove_member etc so you don't have to undergo a crash course in python and mm3's shell just to find and remove a particular member from mailing lists etc. Yes, it would be nice to re-use some of those old mm2 scripts built up over the years on mm3.
-- Alex