We've recently migrated our project's email lists from mailman2 to mailman3. Given the project has been around for a few decades, many people have used different email addresesses over the years, some of which they no longer have access to. However, it would be useful to still be able to associate those emails with a given account. Is there a way that I can do this as an administrator of the mailman3 system?
Thanks, Quanah
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Quanah Gibson-Mount Product Architect Symas Corporation Packaged, certified, and supported LDAP solutions powered by OpenLDAP: <http://www.symas.com>
Quanah Gibson-Mount writes:
We've recently migrated our project's email lists from mailman2 to mailman3. Given the project has been around for a few decades, many people have used different email addresesses over the years, some of which they no longer have access to. However, it would be useful to still be able to associate those emails with a given account. Is there a way that I can do this as an administrator of the mailman3 system?
You can certainly add extra addresses to a Mailman 3 user (I don't know offhand whether/how an admin can do it through Postorius, but the core database certainly has that facility and the REST API allows it).
However, this doesn't have the same semantics as in Mailman 2 because Mailman 2 doesn't have users at all. So as an admin how do you know which addresses correspond to particular users? More generally, what do you mean by "associate with an account", and why do you want to do it?
Normally I would not ask the latter question, it's your business why you want to do it. But here I'm trying to get at what semantics you want. If I were going to do this for the kind of purposes I can imagine, it would be a matter of informing the users that this feature is available, and I'd ask the users to do it if they care. It seems you have some project goal in mind though.
Steve
--On Friday, March 13, 2020 4:18 PM +0900 "Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull.stephen.fw@u.tsukuba.ac.jp> wrote:
You can certainly add extra addresses to a Mailman 3 user (I don't know offhand whether/how an admin can do it through Postorius, but the core database certainly has that facility and the REST API allows it).
I was able to resolve this via the Django admin interface.
However, this doesn't have the same semantics as in Mailman 2 because Mailman 2 doesn't have users at all. So as an admin how do you know which addresses correspond to particular users? More generally, what do you mean by "associate with an account", and why do you want to do it?
Normally I would not ask the latter question, it's your business why you want to do it. But here I'm trying to get at what semantics you want. If I were going to do this for the kind of purposes I can imagine, it would be a matter of informing the users that this feature is available, and I'd ask the users to do it if they care. It seems you have some project goal in mind though.
Because I've been a member of the project for close to 20 years, and the email addresses I've had over that time have changed in relation to the jobs I've had. Same deal for other long time members of the project. By adding addresses I no longer have to my account and marking them verified, I can easily associate nearly 20 years of postings that I've made with myself when I look at the archives.
--Quanah
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Quanah Gibson-Mount Product Architect Symas Corporation Packaged, certified, and supported LDAP solutions powered by OpenLDAP: <http://www.symas.com>
Quanah Gibson-Mount writes:
By adding addresses I no longer have to my account and marking them verified, I can easily associate nearly 20 years of postings that I've made with myself when I look at the archives.
That's a *great* point! And it generalizes to other authors, not just "self".
Hm. I don't think HyperKitty (and definitely not Pipermail for Mailman 2) works that way, though. I'm pretty sure "authors" are From: addresses, not the corresponding users. I'll have to look at it.
Steve
--On Saturday, March 14, 2020 7:02 PM +0900 "Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull.stephen.fw@u.tsukuba.ac.jp> wrote:
Quanah Gibson-Mount writes:
By adding addresses I no longer have to my account and marking them verified, I can easily associate nearly 20 years of postings that I've made with myself when I look at the archives.
That's a *great* point! And it generalizes to other authors, not just "self".
Hm. I don't think HyperKitty (and definitely not Pipermail for Mailman 2) works that way, though. I'm pretty sure "authors" are From: addresses, not the corresponding users. I'll have to look at it.
I was able to find my posts associated with myself doing this, going back to 2006 (When we switched to mailman2). ;)
I.e., from my account drop down, I select "Posting activity", then go to page 651 (the last page), and the last item is:
<https://lists.openldap.org/hyperkitty/list/openldap-software@openldap.org/me...>
So yeah, it works quite well! ;)
Regards, Quanah
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