Cedric Jeanneret wrote: > >I'm trying to create a xapian[1] indexer for our mailing list. As mailman is >written in Python and there are python bindings for xapian, I guess I can >maybe create a plugin for that. >My first question is : is there already such a thing ? I searched on the net, >but nothing appeared >My second one : can we create a plugin for mailman, if so, where should I go >to have some doc ? seems there's nothing in the wiki >(http://wiki.list.org/dosearchsite.action?searchQuery.queryString=plugin&searchQuery.spaceKey=conf_all) > >Just to explain why I'd like to do that: we already have a xapian search >engine in here, indexing a fileserver, request tracker queues and moinmoin >wikis... so we'd like to aggregate all our stuff in one app for searching.
This will be quite doable with Mailman 3 which is still in development. There are problems trying to do this in Mailman 2.1.x. There is a plugin capability of sorts in the form of custom handlers that can be added to the incoming message processing pipeline. See the FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/l4A9>. However, archiving is asynchronous with incoming message processing, so it is not possible for a custom handler to know the URL that will ultimately retrieve the message from the archive. A different approach which might be workable is to use the PUBLIC_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER and PRIVATE_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER hooks. If you set PUBLIC_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER = '/path/to/script.py' PRIVATE_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER = '/path/to/script.py' in mm_cfg.py, then that script will be invoked do do the archiving. The script in turn could invoke the standard pipermail archiving process and then invoke xapian to index the archived message. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org