requesting copies of previous messages on a mailman list
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Hi,
I am an administrator of a mailman mailing list. I am struggling to find any documentation on how to request a copy of a previously posted message using mailman.
i.e. for new users to reply to existing threads.
Is it anywhere in your documentation, can you point me in the right direction?
Thanks,
Ross
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On 06/10/09 07:34, Spencer, Ross wrote:
I'm not aware of any ability in Mailman that will allow you make a request for a previously posted message.
In fact, I believe that Mailman simply (in effect) splits / explodes any given message and re-sends it on to multiple recipients, with one of the recipients being an archive. To the best of my knowledge the archive simply appends the message to an mbox file (or similar) for later view via the web interface. I do not believe there is any concept of retrieving a given message out of the archive.
Grant. . . .
Spencer, Ross wrote:
Does your list have archives?
If so, and if the ARCHIVER_OBSCURES_EMAILADDRS setting has it's default value of Yes, the poster's address in the archived message is a mailto: link to the list with appropriate Subject= and In-Reply-To= query fragments for replying.
There is an issue in that in Mailman versions prior to 2.1.10, there was a bug in that the In-Reply-To was the Message-ID of the prior post in thread if any rather than the current post.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
On 06/10/09 07:34, Spencer, Ross wrote:
I'm not aware of any ability in Mailman that will allow you make a request for a previously posted message.
In fact, I believe that Mailman simply (in effect) splits / explodes any given message and re-sends it on to multiple recipients, with one of the recipients being an archive. To the best of my knowledge the archive simply appends the message to an mbox file (or similar) for later view via the web interface. I do not believe there is any concept of retrieving a given message out of the archive.
Grant. . . .
Spencer, Ross wrote:
Does your list have archives?
If so, and if the ARCHIVER_OBSCURES_EMAILADDRS setting has it's default value of Yes, the poster's address in the archived message is a mailto: link to the list with appropriate Subject= and In-Reply-To= query fragments for replying.
There is an issue in that in Mailman versions prior to 2.1.10, there was a bug in that the In-Reply-To was the Message-ID of the prior post in thread if any rather than the current post.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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