[Mageia-discuss] Mailing list migration: this list is closing

Mon Apr 8 02:27:34 CEST 2013

On Mon, 08 Apr 2013, Johnny A. Solbu wrote:
+
+> On Monday 8. April 2013 01.29, David W. Hodgins wrote:
+> > While it would have been possible to automatically generate identity
+> > accounts from the registration information stored by the mailman
+> > software, it's preferable to be up front an honest about what's being
+> > done, and let people decide for themselves if they want to create such
+> > an account.
+> 
+> Personally i don't have problem wit the requirement, i just wanted to know why the change in policy. And it apears sound.
+
+Because it would be a mess to allow sympa to manage both ldap and
+non-ldap accounts.
+
+> 
+> But I have problems with the apparent abillity to no longer use any other address than the official one listed on my identity page.
+> Is threre a way to do that?
+
+The only way currently is to create an identity account for each address
+you want to use. We can look if it would possible to support an other
+way to do it, but I don't know if that's possible. And of course any
+suggestion about how sympa could be configured to manage multiple email
+addresses with only one ldap account is welcome.
+
+