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

Mon Apr 8 04:02:18 CEST 2013

nicolas vigier a écrit :
+> 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?
+
+Would my suggestion below work for you ?
+
+>
+> 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.
+>
+>
+I don't know if this is easily configurable, but the online 
+documentation for sympa 6.1 has an example that seems to permit 
+filtering by multiple addresses with ldap.
+see http://www.sympa.org/manual/authorization-scenarios#search_condition
+
+Their example shows both
+  salaun at cru.fr
+and
+  O.salaun at cru.fr
+being accepted with the same filter, whereas only the first is coded as 
+such.
+
+This seems to offer interesting possibilities, allowing users to have 
+alternate email adresses with different prefixes of their ldap adresse.
+(by automatically adding * to the beginning of user ldap adresses.)
+The code could require a minimum length to minimise false positives, 
+and/or add the * just before @.
+
+Would this work, and without too much effort ?
+
+-- 
+André
+