[teampractices] Email naming in Google Apps Mail

Andre Klapper aklapper at wikimedia.org
Mon Jun 15 18:56:00 UTC 2015


On Mon, 2015-06-15 at 09:43 -0700, Arthur Richards wrote:
> In the list settings, "A mailing list to discsuss team practices in 
> Wikimedia organizations" is the short description for the list, which 
> gets used on the overall lists page (
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo) so folks can can at-a
> -glance get the gist of a list.
> 
> I have no idea why this also gets used as the sender's name, but 
> presumably it's something that mailman (our mailing list software) is 
> doing. This would be a good question to ask about on wikitech-l or of 
> the WMF ops staff (eg in #wikimedia-operations on freenode) since 
> they maintain our lists infrastructure.

As I don't use Gmail's web interface: Anyone facing this who's willing
to turn https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T102421 (covering another
occurrence of this problem) into a more generic task to investigate?

Thanks,
andre
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Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler
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