[Mailman-Developers] Howto implement an external archiver?

[Richard Barrett]

On Monday, July 14, 2003, at 12:06 PM, Auke Jilderda wrote:

> Currently, GForge [1] servers have both web forums and mailinglists 
> which
> I find confusing.  I prefer to have one discussion channel that is
> accessible via web, mail, and news.  The easiest way to do that is
> replacing Mailman's pipermail archiver with my own that would archive
> postings into the GForge's forums.  (The way back, that is from forum 
> to
> list, already exists.)
>
> I've been digging into Mailman a little to figure out how to replace 
> the
> archiver but can't really find what I'm looking for:  Exactly what do I
> need to do:  Subclass from "Archiver" and implement the "ArchiveMail"
> method?
>

The two MM configuration variables PUBLIC_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER and 
PRIVATE_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER let you define commands which are called to 
handle mail to be archived instead of using the internal pipermail 
archiver. The comments in $prefix/Mailman/Defaults.py prior to the 
default definitions of these variables give more information.

> Would be nice if you could point me in the right direction.  Saves 
> lots of
> time. :-)
>
>
> Auke
>
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