July 29, 1999
10:51 p.m.
"PH" == Paul Hebble <hebble@ncsa.uiuc.edu> writes:
PH> I want to set up Mailman to support other archiving methods,
PH> more cleanly than subscribing a procmailrc to a list. I know
PH> a few other people are interested in this as well.
PH> I would like to add a per-list configuration option to each
PH> list's config.db which tells Mailman a command line to run to
PH> archive a message. Is this any more complicated than adding a
PH> variable to the MailList class and adding a few lines to
PH> Archiver/Archiver.py?
PH> What do other users and developers think of this idea? Is it
PH> dangerous to allow a list adminstrator to execute arbitrary
PH> commands? If so, how else could this be done?Is it that important to allow individual lists to have different archiving mechanisms?
Dave Cinege posted[1] a message to mailman-users explaining how he hooks MHonArc to Mailman and I'm playing with the approach right now (if I can actually get perl <shudder> <coff> to build :).
-Barry
[1] http://www.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/1999-July/001726.html