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

[Michael Stucki]

Hi Michael,

> 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.

I don't think so. My solution is just different but will work for sure!

>> 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).

No. Since _all_ MessageIDs (NNTP+Mailman) are regenerated the same way, it
will work in any case.

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

Nope. See above.

> 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.

It's a Perl script: http://esm.logic.net/projects/inn/

Good luck!
- michael