Email command in Mailman to get by e-mail a message (like ezmlm has)
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. Withoutargument 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
Ricardo Dias Marques wrote:
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?"
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
Hi Mark,
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009, Mark Sapiromark@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?
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.
Interesting. Thanks for the information!
Cheers, Ricardo
Ricardo Dias Marques lists AT ricmarques DOT net
Ricardo Dias Marques 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?
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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