[Mailman-Developers] Users, persistent storage, caches, etc.

[David Lee]

On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Barry Warsaw wrote:

> On Jul 6, 2006, at 2:33 PM, John Dennis wrote:
>
> > My apologies, I have yet to read Barry's SQL work so perhaps the issue
> > of how a user is defined has been greatly enhanced over the current
> > 2.1
> > model.
>
> It hasn't and frankly I don't see that as a possibility in the MM2.2
> time frame.  Not to discourage experimentation by Ethan, David and
> others, but it will necessarily be a hybrid solution until MM3.

That's an OK answer for me, because it gives a realistic view of what
the next couple of years hold, and indicates that fully solving the
user-database issue is a major task.  Thanks.

So because of our local need for a simple sender-based authentication
scheme, I should probably aim for something small, easy and local simply
to get us through the next year or two, while fully aware that we might
have to do a (possibly significant) transition job further down the road.

Thanks.

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