Re: pending queue format conversion

Stephen Warren <[email protected]> writes:

>> Should it be a bin/tmda-foo script that the user or administrator runs
>> from a shell to convert pending queues one by one or en masse?  
>
> This would be my vote. Presumably it'd accept cmd-line args, or a config
> file, with old/new settings and do the conversion. I'd go for this
> option since it gives a simple reliable conversion method, but it's
> still easily controllable by a sysadmin when the conversion occurs, so
> they could roll it through all their accounts at once. Doing something
> even semi-auto-magic (even if requested via config file options) from a
> filter seems a little non-deterministic to me.

I came to pretty much this same conclusion after thinking about it
some more.  I think I'll extend tmda-pending with a '--convert' option
with possibly two more options for "before" and "after" formats.  I
just hope this will be flexible enough for large installations, but
I'm sure we can make it so as we get more feedback.