"LB" == Laurence Berland <laurence@digitalpulp.com> writes:
LB> What I'd like mailman to do is trap these strings such as "0:"
LB> "1:" etc and replace them with something else. Is there a
LB> particularl easy way to do this? If not, where in the code
LB> could I conceivably do this. I've been briefly skimming the
LB> code, and intend to read through quite a bit of it to figure
LB> all this out, but if anyone could at least point me in the
LB> right direction it'd make me very happy.A general approach would be to hack into the Mailman/Queue/ArchRunner.py file, ArchRunner._dispose() method. I'd write a separate "handler module", say Mailman/Handlers/OurStatusMunger.py which does the specifics of the transformation you're interested in. Although your situation is fairly unique, you might want to copy the API and style of other handler modules in that directory.
Then add something to _dispose() that checks an attribute on the mlist object to decide whether to call into your handler module. I'd do the check like this:
...
from Mailman.Handlers import OurStatusMunger
...
if getattr(mlist, 'munge_status_p', 0):
OurStatusMunger.process(mlist, msg, msgdata)
...and then use bin/withlist to add this attribute (set to 1 of course!) to just the list you want to do the extra processing on.
Note that if you want to do this /before/ the message hits the archiver, e.g. you want it in the outgoing messages, you'd simply need to add the OurStatusMunger module to the GLOBAL_PIPELINE variable in Defaults.py.in -- another good reason to make OurStatusMunger.py conform to the handler API.
-Barry