No... No... No... Setup SquirrelMail on one of your servers and you are there. Heck set it up on your Mailman server and use it just for this.
<Shameless plug> If you need help in setting it up, I'm a wiz at setting this up remotely and my prices are great.</SP> Jon Carnes >On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 15:41:54 -0400 Victor Tsaran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. >Hi, John! >Your idea and the advice sound great, however, this assumes that the person >has to use some kind of Unix-based E-mail client which, as you can imagine, >generally not the case. I was hoping for some kind web-based solution, but I >guess we will have to wait for this one. >Thanks for your help. Will let you know if I come up with something >interesting. >Regards, >Victor > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Jon Carnes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 8:57 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: [Mailman-Users] Managing archives > > >oops... forgot to set the rights for the new archive mbox file... >I added that to the second script. > >Jon Carnes > >A script that creates the imap mbox and copies the mbox from the archive: > #! /bin/bash > # > # Used to move an archive into position for editing > # by anyone who can use an email client > # > # Assumptions: > # - mailman install is in /var/mailman > # - imap mailbox root is /home/user/mail/<listname> > # This means that you already created the mbox > # using your email program. > # <listname> == $1 > # > # Input: a valid mailman list name (with archives) > # > PATH2ARC="/var/mailman/archives/private" > # Check that the list name is valid and the archives exist > if [ ! -f $PATH2ARC/$1.mbox/$1.mbox ]; then > echo ERROR: $1 is not a valid mailman list with archives > echo (be sure to use all lower case) > echo or path to archive files is incorrect: > echo $PATH2ARC > echo " " > exit 0 > fi > # > PATH2MB="/home/user/mail" > # > # Check that mbox has been created... > if [ ! -f $PATH2MB/$1 ]; then > echo ERROR: Please check that the path to your IMAP Mailbox > echo is: $PATH2MB > echo and that you have created a Mailbox called:$1 > echo > exit 0 > fi > # > cat $PATH2ARC/$1.mbox/$1.mbox >> $PATH2MB/$1 > >=== > >Now someone simply edits the mailbox using their email client. This >doesn't take anyone technically minded... > >When they are done, we put back the archives: > #! /bin/bash > # > # Used to move an edited mbox from an imap folder > # and put it back into the Mailman archive from > # which it was grabbed. > # > # Assumptions: > # - mailman install is in /var/mailman, > # with archives being in /var/mailman/archives/private/.. > # - imap mailbox root is /home/user/mail/<listname> > # and the imap header for the file is 13 lines long > # including the blank line at the end of the message. > # > # Input: a valid mailman list name (with archives) > # > PATH2ARC="/var/mailman/archives/private" > # > # Check that the list name is valid and the archives exist > if [ ! -f $PATH2ARC/$1.mbox/$1.mbox ]; then > echo ERROR: $1 is not a valid mailman list with archives > echo (be sure to use all lower case) > echo " " > exit 0 > fi > # > PATH2MB="/home/user/mail" > # > # Check that mbox has been created... > if [ ! -f $PATH2MB/$1 ]; then > echo ERROR: could not find mailbox $1 in path: > echo $PATH2MB > echo Please check that root path to mailbox is correct. > echo " " > exit 0 > fi > # > # Number of lines in IMAP header > IHEAD=13 > # > mv $PATH2ARC/$1.mbox/$1.mbox $PATH2ARC/$1.mbox/$1.mbox.bak > # > j=`cat $PATH2MB/$1 |wc -l` > k=$(( j - IHEAD )) > tail -$k $PATH2MB/$1 > $PATH2ARC/$1.mbox/$1.mbox > chown mailman.mailman $PATH2ARC/$1.mbox/$1.mbox > # > # now lets remove the old archive files and regen > # the archives with the new mbox! > rm -rf $PATH2ARC/$1/* > /var/mailman/bin/arch $1 > >=== > >The scripts aren't tested, but should be good for a quick start! >Take care. Hope that helps someone. > >Jon Carnes > > > > >------------------------------------------------------ >Mailman-Users mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users >Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py >Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ > >This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Unsubscribe or change your options at >http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
