two suggestion: dynamically add alias and summery send out

[lundin]

Hi!
Cool program with a unix philosophy doing one thing good. Thanks!
What do you think of these two suggestions or thought:

Do you know any cli tool that might in future be wrapped in a method (createlist) in nanolist that can add users to /etc/postfix/aliases ? That way we can create lists dynamically as well as subscribers.

Secondly adding some goroutine or existing scheduler library to do "summery" send out of dialogs in a list.

[eXeC64]

Thanks, I'm glad others are finding it useful!

For the former, one possibility is giving nanolist an alternative mode to message, such as postfix, where it acts as a filter, like spamd. That requires some research though, and would need to be weighed up the additional complexity added.

For the second, I've never used "daily digests" or similar, so I'm not sure how they are presented to users, but any such system would require storing messages locally, which I'm very reluctant for nanolist to do. One possibility is to make an external tool that subscribes to the full mailing list, and once a day posts a summary to a second "digest" mailing list. The digest list could be restricted so that only the digest tool can post to it.

Many extra mailing list features can easily be bolted onto nanolist, so I've seen no need to make them built in, for example: "You are subscribed to X. To unsubscribe..." messages. They can be sent out pretty easily: just put a sendmail command into the system's crontab.

[lundin]

Thanks for your answer, i agree and you are right about the storage overhead as well.
I i find the time in the week or weekend i might look into it more and try to do some actual coding
and see what i might come up with :)

Will get back to this topic once i done some research as well =)
But a very useful tool for organisations and companies (internal messaging).