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Bug 24453 - Allow us to setup alternate names/redirects for mailing lists
Allow us to setup alternate names/redirects for mailing lists
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: Wikimedia
Classification: Unclassified
Mailing lists (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Low enhancement with 1 vote (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2010-07-19 22:52 UTC by Casey Brown
Modified: 2014-10-24 21:00 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Description Casey Brown 2010-07-19 22:52:45 UTC
It would be good if we could setup alternate names or redirects for mailing lists (e.g. wikimediade-l [at] lists.wikimedia.org would "redirect" to vereinde-l [at] lists.wikimedia.org).  This would make renaming/standardizing/cleaning-up all the list names possible.
Comment 1 Nemo 2010-07-29 21:40:15 UTC
Redirects should work also for mailing lists description (e.g. https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l would redirect to https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation ) and archives (e.g. http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/$1 would redirect to http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation/$1 ) to avoid massive linkrot. This is absolutely necessary, IMHO.

This won't avoid header inconsistencies, anyway (e.g. Sender foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org -> foundation-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org; To foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org -> both foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org and foundation@lists.wikimedia.org ) and hence lots of e-mail filters to be reconfigurated (arguably nothing dramatic).
Comment 2 Nemo 2012-04-11 18:00:05 UTC
It's apparently possible, see http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/60385
Comment 3 Daniel Zahn 2012-06-19 06:48:04 UTC
Meanwhile foundation-l redirects to Wikimedia-l, museum-l redirects to glam and mediawiki-cvs redirects to mediawiki-commits.

This for redirecting list info URLs on the webserver: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/4693/1/files/lighttpd/50-mailman.conf

This is for forwarding email addresses to other lists:

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/4693/1/files/exim/exim4.listserver_aliases.conf
Comment 4 John F. Lewis 2014-10-16 20:57:17 UTC
Is it worth keeping this bug open? What Daniel has showed above seems sufficient for us although an in-house function in mailman would be an upstream issue.
Comment 5 John F. Lewis 2014-10-24 21:00:51 UTC
Per the above.

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