Re: [Evolution] Disable Digests? [was: evolution-list Digest, Vol 156, Issue 61]

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Sat, 2018-07-28 at 14:05 +0100, Dominic Knight wrote:
> On Sat, 2018-07-28 at 12:34 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > To continue: I am a moderator of this list (there are three of us),
> > and
> > think I know how to post an administrative advisory, thanks.
>
> Considering what this subject is about, possibly not!? (sorry POC I
> just got triggered by this one)

(You seem to be quoting the wrong part of my message. I assume you
meant to comment on my thoughts on the effect of disabling digests.)

> If you disable cron/senddigests, no periodic digests will be sent for
> any list. So digest users will no longer get any mails at all unless
> you go into the users settings and manually change them to non-digest
> mode.
>
> I think the following possibly makes sense, but you never know it's
> been a while since I ran any lists:-
> You could,set the list in question to
>
> digest_send_periodic = No
>
> To turn off normal digest mode
>
> Copy cron/senddigests to cron/senddigests2 or whatever name you like
> and make sure the copy is chmod +x
[...]

You're assuming we have control over this. We don't. We have no access
to the gnome.org servers which run Mailman. Our options are limited to
what the Mailman list admin front-end provides.

poc