[Geany-Devel] [Geany-devel] [Geany] ANN: mailing list server move

[Lex Trotman]

On 6 October 2012 22:58, Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:

> On 06/10/12 14:52, Lex Trotman wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> >>> Does/can the re-director from the old list address alter the reply-to
> to
> >>> point to the new list?
> >>
> >> Nope, since the "re-director" is only a really simple alias map (similar
> >> to /etc/aliases).
> >>
> >
> > Ah, so considerable care is needed in replying to anything, even a new
> > message that might have been re-directed, to avoid continuing to go via
> the
> > old address.
>
> But only if you intend to not go via the old address, I personally
> wouldn't mind. Using the old address won't hurt, except that the message
> may be 5 seconds longer on its way (because it has to go through
> uvena.de first) but who cares :).
>
> Seriously, I don't think this will cause bigger problems and in the long
> term usage of the old addresses will just go away. I'm more afraid of
> tinkering some conditional rewriting of mails nobody remembers in a
> couple of months and which is often subject to obscure errors.
>

Heh, good point.  If you don't mind uvena.de still having the traffic for
some time into the future thats fine and thank you.

Cheers
Lex



>
> Regards,
> Enrico
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