[Mageia-sysadm] Adding option on puppet for sympa ML

[Samuel Verschelde]

Le mercredi 31 août 2011 16:46:01, Michael Scherer a écrit :
> Le mercredi 31 août 2011 à 15:38 +0200, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
> > Le mardi 30 août 2011 00:37:00, Michael Scherer a écrit :
> > > Le lundi 29 août 2011 à 19:47 +0200, Damien Lallement a écrit :
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > Does anyone have an idea on:
> > > > - how adding an option on puppet to add/or not "[ML title]" on the
> > > > subject line of the mails sent on ML hosted on sympa
> > > 
> > > I have tried to use only the minimal number of option on sympa ml
> > > because that's such a chore to maintain ( sympa being one of the
> > > biggest module we have, just before the whole buildsystem ), so I
> > > think we should avoid add specific configuration just for purely
> > > esthetic reasons.
> > 
> > That's not purely aesthetic, that's useful and was asked by various
> > members of the QA Team.
> 
> SO maybe they could simply ask to sysadmin directly, or fill a bug ?

We asked Damien as we thought that as the team leader he could do it directly 
in the ML administration panel. We didn't know the fact that it's a sympa ML 
makes things more complicated :)

> 
> > Also, that would be coherent with the mailman mailing lists we
> > have.
> 
> If the goal is to filter, there is already everything in the header of
> the mail. See for example :
> List-Id: <i18n-fr.ml.mageia.org>

My mail provider doesn't know how to filter using this header information, but 
using the To: or CC: information usually does the trick (except when several 
lists are in CC). However, this is not only for filtering but also to allow to 
differentiate threads from different mailing lists. Usually I don't put any 
filters for low-traffic mailing lists (less than a few mails per day) because I 
prefer to see the new mails directly in my inbox, so a visual information is 
useful for me. I don't know the motivation of other team members about it. 

> 
> Using the subject is asing for trouble, especially when mail are sent on
> 2 ml, or resent from a ml to another one.

This is not a problem that annoys me but that's only my opinion here.

Samuel