[Mailman-Users] (pipermail versus ...) To join a conversation fromthe web interface
Edward Harvey
eharvey at lyricsemi.com
Sat Sep 20 01:44:15 CEST 2008
> Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
>
>> Presently, I'm using pipermail. I'm open to suggestions.
>>
>> This question is pretty complicated, so probably the best answer I
>> could
>> possibly get is to know how pipermail gets called, so I can go try
>> and read
>> its source and stuff. So I can dig into it myself. At present, I
>> have no
>> idea what process generates the html from the mbox.
>
>
> The archiver consists of the modules in Mailman/Archiver/
>
> The start of the process is the ArchiveMail() method of the Archiver
> class defined in Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py.
Thank you.
>> In the pipermail archives, he sees this link at the top of the
>> message:
>> Joe User joe.user at domain.com
>> He's going to think, "if I click that link, it's a new message to
>> Joe User."
>
>
> This depends on the setting of ARCHIVER_OBSCURES_EMAILADDRS. If
> ARCHIVER_OBSCURES_EMAILADDRS is Yes, behavior is as below, but if it
> is No, the poster's address isn't munged and the link is to the
> poster.
Oh - I misunderstood the meaning of that. Here's what I thought:
I thought if OBSCURES is No, the archiver shows <a href='mailto:joe at domain'
>joe at domain</a>
I thought if OBSCURES is Yes, the archiver shows <a href='mailto:joe at domain'
>joe -at- domain</a>
I think this is cool the way it is, and it was just my misunderstanding.
>> If he looks closely, he notices the URL of that link is:
>> mailto:somelist at domain.com?Subject=[Somelist]An Interesting
>> Idea&In-Reply-To=
>> He's going to think, "if I click that, it's a new message to the
>> list,
>> joining this conversation."
>>
>> Neither of his thoughts are right.
>>
>> I'm thinking the text of a mailto should always match the url
>> address.
>> Otherwise it's misleading, because most people will only see the
>> blue text.
>> If you see the link joe.user at domain.com then you think it
>> generates mail
>> to joe.user, not to some other address.
>
> Good point.
If I'm making a suggestion for future release... I suggest this:
<strong>Joe User</strong> <a href='mailto:joe at domain'>Reply to Joe</
a><br />
<a href='mailto:list at domain&Subject=blahblah'>Reply to list</a>
>> I'm also thinking it should include the RE: and mimmick the
>> behavior of an
>> actual mail client.
>> ?Subject=Re:[Somelist]An Interesting Idea
>>
>> I'm also thinking there should be a Message-ID in the "In-Reply-To"
>
>
> These were bugs fixed in Mailman 2.1.10. Prior to that, the Re: was
> not
> inserted and the In-Reply-To was taken from the In-Reply-To of this
> message instead of the Message-ID of this message.
>
> Of course, it's still up to the MUA to honor those fragments in the
> mailto URL.
Sure enough, I'm on 2.1.9 (shipped with Centos 5.1). I'll go make an
effort to upgrade.
>> Is it possible my pipermail is simply misocnfigured somehow? I'd
>> like to
>> see this link, or another link, give users the ability to join a
>> conversation, just by clicking something in the web archive.
>
>
> Much of what you see is governed by the article.html template. See the
> FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/jYA9> for more info on templates.
> <snip>
> </A><BR>
In other words, I should be able to customize it. :-) Awesome,
thanks. Wish me luck.
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