[Mailman-Users] How to enable these hashed mailing list archive links? [mailman-rss issue]

[Mark Sapiro]

On 01/02/2017 03:36 PM, Patrick Schleizer wrote:
> Using mailman-rss the following rss feed is created.


What mailman-rss patch? From where?


> https://www.whonix.org/whonix-devel.rss
> 
> The rss feed includes links such as.
> 
> https://www.whonix.org/pipermail/whonix-devel/5a5185288c92208a5d6cefc2324dba97@openmailbox.org
> 
> Where are these links coming from? mailman-rss bug? Or usual mailman links?


That looks like the base archive URL with a Message-ID appended. This is
not a "usual" mailman link. That would be something like
https://www.whonix.org/pipermail/whonix-devel/yyyy-Month/nnnnnn.html.


> If the latter, how to make these mailman links work?


It may or may not be a bug. Possibly your rss patch is intended to
create links from URLs like the above to the actual message and that
part is missing.

There are a few versions of a patch at
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/558014> and this post
<https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2015-March/078572.html>
with this link <http://vnetworx.net/mm_rss.patch> and those patches look
like they generate proper archive URLs.


> Alternatively, is there a way to turn a mailman archive into a rss feed?


Googling mailman-rss finds
<http://jmason.org/software/scripts/mailman-archive-to-rss.txt>.

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