Email command in Mailman to get by e-mail a message (like ezmlm has)
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Hello,
I think this is my post to the Mailman Users mailing list. Hi everyone! :)
I supposed this would be a FAQ, but I can't find it in Mailman's web site. My question is:
"Is there any email command (or other way) that allows you to be e-mailed a past message (or messages) that was sent to a Mailman managed mailing list?"
Browsing the Mailman list archives, I could only find a reference from September 2002 (almost 7 years ago!) from a user (Fernan Aguero) asking the same thing, but not getting a reply:
[Mailman-Users] add to whishlist? http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2002-September/022243.html
I know that ezmlm has a "-get" command for doing this:
EZMAN-0.32: ezmlm Commands http://www.ezmlm.org/ezman/ezman5.html
From that page:
-get
Get a message or range of messages from the archive. Without
argument it returns the messages since the latest digest. To retrieve a range of messages, use list-get.123_234@host(*). At most 100 messages are returned. Without ezmlm-idx, individual messages can still be retrieved by sending mail to list-get.123@host.
By reading the list of Mailman commands available in the following web page, it seems that Mailman (still) hasn't a command for doing that:
Can I use email commands to interact with the Mailman server? http://www.washington.edu/computing/mailman/faqs/mailman.email.html
Am I right? Is there some reason for not including this "get" message functionality in Mailman?
Thanks in advance! :)
Cheers, Ricardo Dias Marques lists AT ricmarques DOT net
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Ricardo Dias Marques wrote:
No. There are no email commands for retrieving archived messages.
The pipermail web archive has periodic pseudo-mailbox (.txt and/or .txt.gz) files and there is normally a global archive mailbox in the file archives/private/LIST.mbox/LIST.mbox that may be linked from the archive table of contents and can normally be retrieved via a URL like <http://www.example.com/mailman/private/LIST.mbox/LIST.mbox>, but there is no mechanism to retrieve messages from the archive via email commends.
-- 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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Hi Mark,
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009, Mark Sapiro<mark@msapiro.net> wrote:
No. There are no email commands for retrieving archived messages.
Thanks for your quick reply. Is there any reason for not implementing this functionality -OR- is it just that there are other more urgent things to implement for Mailman first?
Interesting. Thanks for the information!
Cheers, Ricardo
Ricardo Dias Marques lists AT ricmarques DOT net
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Ricardo Dias Marques wrote:
A bit of both. Mailman's philosophy from the beginning has been to provide web based tools and interfaces in preference to email based.
Also, I think no one has really perceived a need for this kind of function.
-- 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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Ricardo Dias Marques wrote:
No. There are no email commands for retrieving archived messages.
The pipermail web archive has periodic pseudo-mailbox (.txt and/or .txt.gz) files and there is normally a global archive mailbox in the file archives/private/LIST.mbox/LIST.mbox that may be linked from the archive table of contents and can normally be retrieved via a URL like <http://www.example.com/mailman/private/LIST.mbox/LIST.mbox>, but there is no mechanism to retrieve messages from the archive via email commends.
-- 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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Hi Mark,
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009, Mark Sapiro<mark@msapiro.net> wrote:
No. There are no email commands for retrieving archived messages.
Thanks for your quick reply. Is there any reason for not implementing this functionality -OR- is it just that there are other more urgent things to implement for Mailman first?
Interesting. Thanks for the information!
Cheers, Ricardo
Ricardo Dias Marques lists AT ricmarques DOT net
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Ricardo Dias Marques wrote:
A bit of both. Mailman's philosophy from the beginning has been to provide web based tools and interfaces in preference to email based.
Also, I think no one has really perceived a need for this kind of function.
-- 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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