[Mailman-Users] running External Archiver on background/foreground

[Mark Sapiro]

Mohamed CHAARI wrote:

>Mark Sapiro wrote:
>
>> but the normal way
>> to do this is to just do normal archiving in Mailman and subscribe an address
>> to the list to do the external archiving.
>> 
>
>I didn't understand well this solution. can you please explain it, how 
>can a subscriber/address do the external archiving ?


You subscribe a user in your local domain to the list. This is a real
user account, but not one normally used for mail. This user has a
.forward file which pipes incoming mail to the external archiver or to
a script which filters out non-list spam and sends the rest to the
external archiver. Or the mail is just delivered to a local mailbox
and some cron runs frequently to remove the mail from the local
mailbox, filter it and send the good list mail to the external
archiver.

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