[Mailman-Developers] hooking mailman into bbs forum

[Steel City Phantom]

the term archiver tells me some routine that runs at night to roll 
everything up.  could i do it with an archiver and still be real time?

Terri Oda wrote:

> On Nov 4, 2004, at 4:31 PM, Steel City Phantom wrote:
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>> if someone replys to the email they receive from mailman, how to i 
>> get mailman to either post the reply into the mysql database, or 
>> another option will be send my JBoss servlet the email formatted into 
>> some kind of xml that the JBoss can use to post into the forum.
>>
>> if anyone can point me into a direction to do this, it would help me 
>> a lot.  i just downloaded 2.1.5 and am starting to find my way around 
>> the code, but that will take a while.
>
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> Have you looked at making an archiver for mailman that just dumps 
> stuff into your database?  I'd guess that you could go
>
> webform -> mailman -> jboss
> email -> mailman -> jboss
>
> then, so you'd have to switch your bbs to send everything to mailman 
> and not archive it, then have posts archived after they've been 
> handled by mailman.  But then it wouldn't matter where the message 
> came from initially, be it a web submission or an email reply.  A BBS 
> system might make a particularly nice archiver, too...
>
>  Terri
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