Re: Development Plan
[email protected] (Barry A. Warsaw) Tue, 4 Dec 2001 16:31:27 -0500
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.web.zope.zmailman |
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>>>>> "SR" == Stephan Richter <[email protected]> writes: SR> 3. First I plan to integrate the data structures, since this SR> will save us from rewriting the management screens. One other thing you need to decide: will you support backwards compatibility, or an upgrade path for existing Mailman installations? That's going to be very tricky, so perhaps you should not worry about it for now. One example: each list has its own notions of a "user account", keyed off the address. How do you merge the accounts for each user? There might be 7 different passwords, 3 different delivery settings, and all the options might be different. You'll need to eventually support this level of user configurability anyway. Another tricky bit: users should be able to associate multiple email addresses with their account, and select which ones receive email for which lists. All should be valid for posting purposes though, and there ought to be some failover when bounces are detected. But maybe that's for later. -Barry