On Thursday, October 9, 2003, at 10:08 am, Gary C. New wrote:
I've been looking into implementing a mailing list package and I think I've narrowed them down to mailman or sympa.
I have a few questions regarding mailman and hope to find some answers here.
1. What mail archiving software is recommend for use with mailman and how difficult would it be to drop into a template?
Mailman has its own built-in/integrated archiver: pipermail. Not perfect but quite adequate for many list's needs. In MM 2.1.x, templates for archive page generation can be readily tailored for site, virtual host and specific list needs.
As a companion to pipermail, you can use MHonArc or any other HTML generating archiver of your choice in a loosely coupled fashion.
I have published on sourceforge, a patch for MM 2.1.3 which tightly integrates MHonArc with MM/pipermail and allows, amongst other things, per-list choice of pipermail or MHonArc for HTML archive index and message page generation, with pipermail providing top level control of archiving. The patch is currently available here:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/ ?func=detail&aid=820723&group_id=103&atid=300103
http://www.openinfo.co.uk/mailman/patches/mhonarc/index.html
2. What is the recommended search tool to use with mailman, other than htdig?
The only tightly integrated search engine for MM is currently htdig, using patches published on sourceforge. For an example of its use visit the following URL, although this is running MM 2.0.13, a fairly old verion of MM and the htdig integration patch
http://dotgnu.org/pipermail/developers/
If all your lists a public then you can configure the search engine of your choice to index the archive HTML pages. Take a look at the following FAQ page for more info:
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.011.htp
I would prefer using mailman, but sympa's integrated mail archiving and search functions are a great incentive (I do like sf's implementation of mailman and might consider it if its source was available to the community).
If I understand it right, Sympa also uses MHonArc for generating HTML archive pages.
Thank you for your assistance.
Respectfully,
Gary
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