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> One thing that absolutely we require is the ability to send figure
> attachments (usually Postscript).
Mailman allows attachments (of any type) through to the list. There is
a parameter specifying a size limit, which you may wish to change
(Administrator web pages, General Options, "Maximum length in Kb of a
message body. Use 0 for no limit."
However the archiver may give you problems....
> Another thing is that we would
> really like to be able to find old messages with a keyword search.
The basic mailman archiver has no search facilities. There are patches
to integrate htdig into it - see the patch archive on sourceforge.
However the archiver has one major drawback for the application you
describe - it is not MIME aware and attachments sent to the list will
appear inline as an ascii mess. If you want to use Mailman as the
mailing list manager, then I would strongly suggest using a different
archiver, such as MHonArc.
http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/mhonarc.html
There have been discussions about using MHonArc in the past, and a
number of people are using it as their main archiver, so I would
strongly suggest its use if pipermail (the internal archiver) is not
suitable for you, however I do not use it myself. You also need an
additional indexer.
Would any of the list people using MHonArc like to produce a doc
fragment on integration with Mailman and indexing etc.
An alternative would be to run Mailman with a MIME content stripper and
not archive the postscript. I am also working on a Mailman prefilter
which strips MIME and makes the attachments available as URLs on the
mailing list machine - I have a working version of this in perl but its
dog slow.... the rewrite in in progress.
Nigel.
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