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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