On 1/11/20 2:43 AM, Jim Ward wrote:
I will admit I was partial to the MM 2.1 columns and checkboxes but the end result is the same, HOWEVER:
- The member 'Display Name' does not seem to be available to be managed by me the domain/list administrator.
- The 'Search Members' function appears to be limited to the email address only and does not include display name
These items are important to me as the list I am running includes many that are not, nor will they really ever be, technically savvy enough to access and manage their own account.
Part of this is because of the architecture of Mailman 3. In mailman 2.1, we have lists and members of those lists and no connection between a member of one list and a member of another list, even if their email addresses are the same. Thus, a member of a list and that member's display name are things associated only with that list, and can be manipulated by the list admin.
Mailman 3 is different. In mailman 3 we have users and addresses. A user has a display name and one or more addresses, one of which is preferred, and each address has a display name. These are independent of any list and belong to the user. Then, a list member can be a user, in which case, the address associated with this member is the user's preferred address and the display name is the user's display name (or maybe the display name of that address, I'm not sure). Or, a list member can be an address in which case, the member's display name is the display name associated with that address.
Thus, in Mailman 3 the display name associated with a list member can be one of several, and these belong to the user, not to the list.
As far as not searching display names is concerned, this is <https://gitlab.com/mailman/postorius/issues/378>.
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