[Mailman-Developers] Virtual Domains Redux (w proposal)

[Rich Johnson]

On Mar 9, 2006, at 1:02 PM, Rich Johnson wrote:

> On Mar 9, 2006, at 9:55 AM, Ian Eiloart wrote:
>>>
>>> Actually, implementing the lists/<hostname>/<localpart> and
>>> archives/(private|public)/<hostname>/<localpart> was one of the  
>>> first
>>> things I have implemented, as it is one of the easiest parts and had
>>> been mentioned at
>>> http://www.zope.org/Members/bwarsaw/MailmanDesignNotes/ 
>>> VirtualHosting
>>
>> I'd propose a slight variation on that, to better accommodate
>> campus/corporate setups, as well as hosting providers:
>>
>> lists/tld/subdomain/.../listname
>>
>> [...snip...]
>
> With all these variations, it might be reasonable to consider dumping
> the path macros altogether and switch to a functional model.
> The path mapping functions could be supplied by mm_cfg and modified
> as appropriate for the installation.

Oh wait!

Mailman/Site.py already provides this function--but the rest of the  
system never propagates the domain--neither do the support utilities  
(like check_perms)