On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:08:06 -0800 Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> wrote:
> 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. > Hello again, Just one question : what do mlist, msg, msgdata stand for ? As I read I've to create my module and define a "process(mlist, msg, msgdata) inside it, I'd like to know what are those objects. I discovered that mlist stands for a Mailman.MailList.MailList('list-name'), but for the others, it's a bit hard to find... Thanks in advance. C. -- Cédric Jeanneret | System Administrator 021 619 10 32 | Camptocamp SA cedric.jeanne...@camptocamp.com | PSE-A / EPFL
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