Mailman 3 August 2009 - Mailman-Developers

Re: [Mailman-Developers] [Mailman-Users] mailman user password
by Adam McGreggor 10 Aug '09

10 Aug '09

*shimmied over to mailman-devs* (from -users) On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 10:33:06AM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote: > It kind of sucks that there are so many other Mailman command line > scripts, which is one reason why I've always put them in a separate > Mailman specific bin directory. With MM3 though I intend to use a > 'subcommand' approach so that there's only one 'mailman' command. > Think things like 'mailman listmembers foo'. I'll probably keep > mailmanctl separate though I haven't decided about that yet. Would it too much to ask for the 'old' (read 'current') scripts/commands to be aliased: at least in the first few releases? e.g., for 'list_members' to link to 'mailman listmembers' Perhaps as an install/configure/compilation option? "Create old-style links?" --old-style-links (maybe that's more for people who package: ISTR a couple of packagers are on list, yes?) (wonders how many other people have scripts that would need re-writing otherwise...)

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Searchable archives for MM
by Siggy Brentrup 10 Aug '09

10 Aug '09

Hi list, please let me start by presenting myself. My name is Bernd "Siggy" Brentrup and I'm a longtime *nix user/programmer/admin, from '95 thru '04 I have been a DD, shortly before I vanished from Debian I was part of the 2 and 1/2 men show maintaining Debian's mailman package; during that time I wrote most of the debconf stuff and contributed postfix-to-mailman.py modelled after Bruce Perens's qmail-to-mailman.py. Even then, one of my biggest concerns with mailman was that the archives are not searchable, I just can't recall whether I published this in '04. Now trying to reenter the OSS community I observe that archives on mailman lists still aren't searchable. Barry told me pipermail didn't see much love during the last years and some revamp is required. In contrast to his suggestions (sth involving google search) I'm aiming at a solution akin to Debian's Xapian powered ML search. cf http://lists.debian.org/cgi-bin/search What do you think and is anybody else interested in working on this? Thanks for listening Siggy -- bsb-at-psycho-dot-informationsanarchistik-dot-de or: bsb-at-psycho-dot-i21k-dot-de O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org

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Attachment icon in archives
by Hopkins, Justin 07 Aug '09

07 Aug '09

For me, having a paperclip or some other indication of an attached file on messages in the archive would go a long way towards helping me find the message I am looking for. Has anyone else thought this and found or know of a solution? Cheers, Justin

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