2 Sep
1999
2 Sep
'99
8:41 p.m.
"PH" == Paul Hebble hebble@ncsa.uiuc.edu writes:
PH> This patch should let the administrator specify alternative
PH> external archivers. All you have to do is set the
PH> PUBLIC_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER and/or PRIVATE_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER
PH> variables to the command line you wish to use. If you put
PH> "$LISTNAME" or "${LISTNAME}" in the command line, it is
PH> replaced with the name of the list. Mailman will run the
PH> command line and pipe each post to it.
PH> The main advantage to this is that all post filtering is done
PH> without having to subscribe a procmailrc to the list. This
PH> prevents list-admins from accidentally unsubscribing the
PH> archiver.
PH> If the variables given above are set to "" (the default),
PH> Mailman will fall back to the built-in Pipermail archiver, so
PH> this should not break any existing installations.Paul, I'd like to install this patch but have a couple of suggestions. First (and I apologize for not looking at it closer), I'd like to use any false value -- None or 0 would be preferrable -- to indicate use-the-internal-archiver. Maybe your patch already supports that.
Second...
PH> My apologies for using regsub, but I have not been able to
PH> find enough documentation on the re module. Perhaps someone
PH> better acquainted with it could migrate this patch to it?I'm sorry I don't have the time to port to re module. Do you think you'd be able to do it? I'd rather not include new dependencies on regsub, which is deprecated and may someday go away.
Here's documentation on re:
http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-re.html
If you do port to re, please resubmit the patch against the CVS snapshot and I'd be very happy to install it.
Thanks, -Barry