CVS, Mailman, and HTML

[Dan Jenkins]

Paul Lussier wrote:

> In a message dated: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 08:58:27 EDT
> "Kenneth E. Lussier" said:
> 
>>Has anyone ever archived html e-mail using Mailman??
> 
> Sure, every mailing list out there that uses Mailman for the most part
> uses it's archive feature.  Though, I'm also sure you've noticed that
> these archives are horrendous for searching!
> 
> We use Mailman extensively for all our lists, but we archive them all to
> an IMAP mailbox.  For every mail list, we specifically shut off the
> Mailman archive option, but subscribe an alias of
> <listname>@lists.foo.com where 'lists.foo.com' is handled by the MTA
> which directs all mail of this form to be handled by cyrus rather than
> by Mailman (since they're both on the same box).
> 
> It's a lot easier for people to search an IMAP box, and if they're
> already using an IMAP mail client, there's no need for them to a)
> subscribe to the list, they can just look in the IMAP folder, and b)
> change clients to search the archives.
> 
> I don't know about other IMAP servers, but cyrus maintains per-user
> indices to keep track of what's been read/not read in each folder, which
> makes for maintaining group folders very convenient.  So, even if Bob
> has read the lastest mesg in the windows-for-weenies IMAP folder the
> rest of the members of this list will still show the mesg as unread.

Now that is a "Why the hell didn't I think of that?" idea!

Add a webmail interface to it (like SquirrelMail) and it solves
several problems I've been having.

Thank you for that insight.

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