On 5/18/20 5:13 PM, Brian Carpenter wrote:

I am thinking about incorporating the following Postorius/Django account feature into Affinity:

Other emails: (no other email) Link another address

However I cannot think of a serious real-world need for this. What are the developers' reasoning behind this? Was this feature highly demanded by Mailman 3 users? Just trying to find out what I am missing here.

In mailman 2.1 there was no concept of user. There were only lists and list members and list members were just email addresses that had no connection to other list members even if they happened to have the same email address.

In mailman 3 we have users. Users can have multiple addresses. a user or a particular user's address can be a regular member and an owner of one list, a moderator of another list and a non-member of a third list. Some other address of that user can be a digest member of the first list.

All of these addresses and roles can belong to a single user and be managed from that user's one account.

Sure, each address can be separate with it's own login, but isn't it more convenient if they are all linked under one login if they all belong to one individual.

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