Fwd: [Tools-discuss] Notes on the account creation steps for mailman3

[Robert Sparks <[e-mail]>]

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Subject: 	[Tools-discuss] Notes on the account creation steps for mailman3
Date: 	Fri, 9 Feb 2024 12:00:01 -0600
From: 	Robert Sparks <[e-mail]>
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We are still planning to make the Mailman3 transition this coming 
Monday, 12Feb.

If you are an existing list owner or moderator, you will remain so for 
the list that is migrated into mailman3, but you will need to claim the 
address used for that list as part of your account at mailman3.

When you first create an account, you'll prove you can receive email at 
the address being claimed, and then set a password. At that point, you 
will have owner/moderator access for every list that used that email 
address.

For any other addresses that you may be configured as an owner or 
moderator of some list, you should claim those as additional addresses 
while logged into the first one. If you don't, and claim the second or 
subsequent addresses while logged out, you'll end up with multiple 
accounts, which will work, but you will probably want to merge them 
later, and its better to avoid the work in the first place. If you find 
you created multiple accounts accidentally, you can delete the one you 
didn't intend, and then claim its address in the one you wanted to keep.

For instance, over time, I've had [e-mail] and 
[e-mail] (and maybe a few others) end up in configuration for 
lists that manage. I will create an account using [e-mail] 
and from inside that account claim [e-mail].

If you can no longer receive mail at an address that is listed for you 
as owner or moderator, you will have to ask your co-owner/moderators to 
change that value once they have access. You will also be able to 
request help from the secretariat, but please help each other as much as 
you can first.

We are working towards sending a message to each address listed as an 
owner/moderator of a list, showing for which lists that address has a role.

Note also that we do intend to eventually change this so that you use 
your datatracker credentials to access mailman3. There are a number of 
things that kept us from going straight to that without this 
intermediate step. But going through this step will make that future 
change easier.

RjS

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