[Mailman-Users] Mailman feature

[Brad Knowles]

At 5:56 PM -0500 2004-06-11, Brett Rogers wrote:

>  With this upgrade were you able to streamline the process when you have
>  to change a members email address, that it replicates to all the lists
>  that they are subscribed to or just have on record for each email
>  address and have all lists reference back to a main address table?  I
>  hope this makes sense.

	There is no "main address table" in current and previous versions 
of Mailman (this is a feature which may be incorpated for Mailman 
3.x, however).  The list of users for a mailing list is stored within 
a binary "pickle" for the list.  Each list has a separate "pickle" 
containing the set of users which are subscribed to that list.

	Yes, there is a page where a user can log in and change their 
e-mail address in a single place for all lists, but this is a 
separate issue.


	Regardless, the upgrade process doesn't change the e-mail address 
of any users.  It simply upgrades the lists in-place.  None of the 
e-mail addresses should change, neither for the list itself, nor for 
any of the users.

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