[Mailman-Developers] Building plug-ins for mailman.

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Aanand Shekhar Roy writes:

 > outdated so I had to ask you all whether the following ideas have been
 > implemented yet or not?

Neither has been implemented in Mailman, but you might want to do a
web search for them, especially the downloadable archives --
HyperKitty may have already done it.

 > 1.Provide downloadable tar.gz's of the html archives.

There's no such thing as "the" archives in Mailman.  The site admin
may not even have direct access to them (if they use mail-archive.com
or Gmane), and even if the archive is local, there are various
archivers (the old Pipermail in Mailman 2 -- which hasn't yet been
ported to Mailman 3, MHonArc, and now HyperKitty).

I'm not sure how much value this has, however, both because we already
provide downloadable mbox archives, and on the other hand connectivity
is rapidly improving everywhere -- the HTML version is easily and
quickly available over the web.

 > 2.Timed vacations, allowing a user to postpone or discard email for a
 > certain number of days or weeks.

This is a good idea, and straightforward to implement, I think.