[Mailman-Users] Export messages to another archiver

[Vincent Le Goff]

Hi,

Thanks a lot.  I succeeded to use mailbox.mbox to extract the mylist.mbox
file, that seems easy enough.  I don't know if it's what I would like to do,
especially when the list will grow, but it's a good start nevertheless.

Thanks again,

Vincent

2013/1/12, Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>:
> Vincent Le Goff wrote:
>>
>>Thanks, I didn't think about subscribing a local address to get the
>>incoming messages.
>>
>>That could be what I need, but as I will try different solutions
>>before choosing, could you tell me (if it's simple enough, redirect me
>>otherwise to some web page) how to export messages with the 'withlist'
>>command?
>
>
> withlist is probably not at all what you want. The only thing you could
> do with withlist is use archiver methods to retrieve messages from the
> built in archive. This would be difficult as the methods are designed
> to add messages to an archive, not to retrieve them. It would be
> easier to create a process which accesses the
> archives/private/LISTNAME.mbox/LISTNAME.mbox file and retrieves 'new
> messages from it.
>
> If you want this process to replace the built in archiving rather than
> supplement it, and you want it to apply to all lists or maybe just all
> lists with public archives or all lists with private archives, See the
> documentation for PRIVATE_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER and
> PUBLIC_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER in the
>
> #####
> # Archive defaults
> #####
>
> section in Mailman's Defaults.py.
>
>
>>I would like to find a way to export (either periodically or every
>>time a message is received) the list's posts, in order to use a
>>different web interface for the archiver.  I know that selecting ALL
>>messages posted to a list could be a really bad idea, if the list is
>>big enough, but maybe some ways (that I would look for later) would
>>allow me to export only one post at a time.
>
>
> As noted above, if you want to replace the built in archiver, Mailman's
> facility for specifying an external archiver is the way to go unless
> you want to do it for just one or a few of many lists. If you want it
> for just a few lists, the easiest way is to subscribe a local address
> and alias it to a pipe to the archiving process. Another way would be
> a custom handler which would apply to only selected lists and pipe the
> message to the external archiver. See the FAQ at
> <http://wiki.list.org/x/l4A9>.
>
> If you want an external archiver for all lists to supplement rather
> than replace the built in archiver, see the FAQ at
> <http://wiki.list.org/x/RAKJ>.
>
>
>>PS: The reply-to is set to your address, not to the list.  I don't
>>know if I'm supposed to reply to the mailman-users mailing list, or if
>>I just have to summarize what you told me in a different post.
>
>
> You posted to the list. I 'replied all' which addressed my reply to
> both you and the list (you probably only received the direct copy
> because your subscription is set to "Avoid duplicate copies of
> messages?" - nodupes). There was no reply-to: in my message to you and
> there would not have been in the list copy either. You can either
> 'reply' to just me or 'reply all' to me and the list. The latter is
> usually, but not always what you want.
>
> I have Cc'd this reply to the list.
>
> --
> Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
> San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
>
>