[Mailman-Developers] Re: Tweaking Mail->News Gateway

[Michael Heydekamp]

Michael Stucki <mundaun at gmx.ch> wrote on 03.01.04:

> Dear Michael,

>> we at freexp.de are setting up Mailman and INN and are trying to get
>> the Mail<->News facility to work.  We are neither familiar with
>> Mailman nor with Python, just being poor old Pascal programmers. ;)

> I have successfully set up the same combination at TYPO3s mailing
> list server (see http://typo3.org/1252.html).

> Sorry I can not really answer your questions,

Well, at least a response. :)  I was already thinking if my questions
were to simple or too complex for the list.  Or if it's simply the wrong
time to ask such questions.

> but I can tell you how I did it. My solution is a bit different to
> your attempt. I munge _all_ message IDs the same way.

> Visit http://www.mstucki.net/files/misc/mailman/ where I have
> uploaded a patch for CookHeaders.py.

Done and understood.  But this will only work if *no* user will disable
the option of receiving own posts to the list.  Because if he does so
then *no* reply to his own post would be correctly threaded (from his
local point of view).

> I don't know if this is still neccessary, but you should also check
> if you need to run the filter_nnrpd.pl after each NNTP post (see INN
> documentation).

The direction news=>mail is not the problem, it's mail=>news.

I don't know yet what filter_nnrpd.pl exactly does but if I would want
to run it, what would I have to do?  As I said, Python totally escapes
me.

To all: I'm really and desperately still waiting for helpful responses
to my original mail.  Any reply will be highly appreciated.


        Michael