Fwd: Re: [Mailman-Users] Modifying mailman to filter archived messages

[Laurence Berland]

I'm currently thinking the _get_body function in HyperArch.py would be the
most ideal place to do this sort of thing, but I'm really not positive.  Any
tips?

Thanks,
Laurence

On Monday 15 July 2002 11:10 am, Laurence Berland wrote:
> All,
> 	I'm trying to modify mailman to simplify some tasks.  Currently, sysadmins
> get various emails from LogWatch every day or so that need to be read
> through in depth and then saved to some mailbox somewhere.  This both takes
> a lot of time and creates lots of private copies of these messages, which
> is bad. The simple part of this is to instead have the emails go to a
> mailman list that these people may or may not choose to subscribe to, so
> that mailman will archive the messages and let people choose whether or not
> to receive them without the intervention of others.  The tough part is
> status coding.  I've already modified LogWatch (and will modify other
> email-sending scripts such as our backup scripts) to code certain lines
> based on whether or not they require attention.  Example 0: means "fine" or
> "green" and 2: means "trouble" or "red".  What I'd like mailman to do is
> trap these strings such as "0:" "1:" etc and replace them with something
> else.  Is there a particularl easy way to do this?  If not, where in the
> code could I conceivably do this.  I've been briefly skimming the code, and
> intend to read through quite a bit of it to figure all this out, but if
> anyone could at least point me in the right direction it'd make me very
> happy.
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Laurence Berland
>
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