[Mailman-Users] Managing archives

[jonc]

No... No... No...

Setup SquirrelMail on one of your servers and you are there. Heck set it up
on your Mailman server and use it just for this.

<Shameless plug> If you need help in setting it up, I'm a wiz at setting
this up remotely and my prices are great.</SP>

Jon Carnes

>On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 15:41:54 -0400 Victor Tsaran <vtsaran at icevi.org> wrote.
>Hi, John!
>Your idea and the advice sound great, however, this assumes that the person
>has to use some kind of Unix-based E-mail client which, as you can imagine,
>generally not the case. I was hoping for some kind web-based solution, but
I
>guess we will have to wait for this one.
>Thanks for your help. Will let you know if I come up with something
>interesting.
>Regards,
>Victor
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jon Carnes [mailto:jonc at nc.rr.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 8:57 AM
>To: vtsaran at icevi.org
>Cc: mailman-users at python.org
>Subject: RE: [Mailman-Users] Managing archives
>
>
>oops... forgot to set the rights for the new archive mbox file...
>I added that to the second script.
>
>Jon Carnes
>
>A script that creates the imap mbox and copies the mbox from the archive:
>  #! /bin/bash
>  #
>  # Used to move an archive into position for editing
>  # by anyone who can use an email client
>  #
>  # Assumptions:
>  #   - mailman install is in /var/mailman
>  #   - imap mailbox root is /home/user/mail/<listname>
>  #     This means that you already created the mbox
>  #     using your email program.
>  #       <listname> == $1
>  #
>  # Input: a valid mailman list name (with archives)
>  #
>  PATH2ARC="/var/mailman/archives/private"
>  # Check that the list name is valid and the archives exist
>  if [ ! -f $PATH2ARC/$1.mbox/$1.mbox ]; then
>    echo ERROR: $1 is not a valid mailman list with archives
>    echo   (be sure to use all lower case)
>    echo   or path to archive files is incorrect:
>    echo     $PATH2ARC
>    echo " "
>    exit 0
>  fi
>  #
>  PATH2MB="/home/user/mail"
>  #
>  # Check that mbox has been created...
>  if [ ! -f $PATH2MB/$1 ]; then
>    echo ERROR: Please check that the path to your IMAP Mailbox
>    echo   is: $PATH2MB
>    echo   and that you have created a Mailbox called:$1
>    echo
>    exit 0
>  fi
>  #
>  cat $PATH2ARC/$1.mbox/$1.mbox >> $PATH2MB/$1
>
>===
>
>Now someone simply edits the mailbox using their email client. This
>doesn't take anyone technically minded...
>
>When they are done, we put back the archives:
>  #! /bin/bash
>  #
>  # Used to move an edited mbox from an imap folder
>  # and put it back into the Mailman archive from
>  # which it was grabbed.
>  #
>  # Assumptions:
>  #   - mailman install is in /var/mailman,
>  #     with archives being in /var/mailman/archives/private/..
>  #   - imap mailbox root is /home/user/mail/<listname>
>  #     and the imap header for the file is 13 lines long
>  #     including the blank line at the end of the message.
>  #
>  # Input: a valid mailman list name (with archives)
>  #
>  PATH2ARC="/var/mailman/archives/private"
>  #
>  # Check that the list name is valid and the archives exist
>  if [ ! -f $PATH2ARC/$1.mbox/$1.mbox ]; then
>    echo ERROR: $1 is not a valid mailman list with archives
>    echo (be sure to use all lower case)
>    echo " "
>    exit 0
>  fi
>  #
>  PATH2MB="/home/user/mail"
>  #
>  # Check that mbox has been created...
>  if [ ! -f $PATH2MB/$1 ]; then
>    echo ERROR: could not find mailbox $1 in path:
>    echo   $PATH2MB
>    echo   Please check that root path to mailbox is correct.
>    echo " "
>    exit 0
>  fi
>  #
>  # Number of lines in IMAP header
>  IHEAD=13
>  #
>  mv $PATH2ARC/$1.mbox/$1.mbox $PATH2ARC/$1.mbox/$1.mbox.bak
>  #
>    j=`cat $PATH2MB/$1 |wc -l`
>    k=$(( j - IHEAD ))
>    tail -$k $PATH2MB/$1 > $PATH2ARC/$1.mbox/$1.mbox
>    chown mailman.mailman $PATH2ARC/$1.mbox/$1.mbox
>  #
>  # now lets remove the old archive files and regen
>  # the archives with the new mbox!
>  rm -rf $PATH2ARC/$1/*
>  /var/mailman/bin/arch $1
>
>===
>
>The scripts aren't tested, but should be good for a quick start!
>Take care.  Hope that helps someone.
>
>Jon Carnes
>
>
>
>
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