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Enhancing Mailman Lists with Advanced Archives and Search Capabilities

Learn how to replace Pipermail with Hypermail for searchable archives and improved extensibility and robustness in managing MIME content. Enhance your Mailman lists with advanced search engines like Wilma for efficient browsing. Configure specialized archiver accounts and procmail filters. Update archive URLs in mm_cfg.py for seamless integration.

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Enhancing Mailman Lists with Advanced Archives and Search Capabilities

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  1. > We're testing mailman as our list software and so far we like it. However,

  2. > we'd like to be able to search our archives for info...something that

  3. > Pipermail doesn't offer.

  4. >

  5. > I've finished compiling Hypermail and I'm wondering if anyone has any

  6. > pointers in replacing pipermail with Hypermail.

  7. I've done it with MHonArc, but I imagine that hypermail could be set

  8. up in the same way (if you haven't considered MHonArc, you should -- I

  9. find it to be much more extensible and particularly robust when dealing

  10. with MIME).

  11. http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/mhonarc.html

  12. There are also many search engines available to work with MHonArc,

  13. although Wilma is probably the best of the lot (which, in my opinion,

  14. doesn't say much for the others either). I ended up rolling my own

  15. glimpse-based engine for the lists at mallorn.com.

  16. Anyhow, as far as doing this... The way that I have things set up

  17. is through a specialized account called 'archiver', 'listarchive', or

  18. whatever you want. 'archiver' is subscribed to all lists, and any mail

  19. sent to it goes through a procmail filter (either .procmailrc or via a

  20. .forward file). Based on certain checks, the procmail filter executes

  21. a command that pipes the message to hypermail, mhonarc, or whatever...

  22. Last step: make sure that you change PUBLIC_ARCHIVE_URL and

  23. PRIVATE_ARCHIVE_URL in $prefix/Mailman/mm_cfg.py to point to the right

  24. location.

  25. Chris

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