On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 07:49 -0500, Paul Tomblin wrote: > If you find one that allows you to still use the mailman login system > so that only members of a list can view the archives, please let me > know. I looked at a few archive searchers, but it appears they all > either make the list archives public, or you can do a htaccess thing > which will require you to change the password every time somebody > leaves the list and tell all the current members the new password, > etc.
About three years ago I worked out a complete system for integrating Namazu with Mailman, and it's still successfully in use on my production servers. You can find it at <http://www.fmp.com/namazu>. This is the guts of the system. I've subsequently added the ability to mailman to read the index.html file in the Pipermail archive in a PHP context which allows the use of an accessory list of lists which are authorized to use the namazu search, while others don't offer this ability. There are a few glitches in this, since the integration of namazu and mailman is imperfect by nature. Keep in mind that all this was written three years ago, for a previous version of Mailman. Additionally, Namazu's date sort is, or was, dependent on the file dates in the pipermail structure, rather than parsing dates from files, so if you move your archives to a new system the date sort becomes quite broken if the file creation dates are munged. This is a namazu issue. The author of Namazu struggles with English, and I have no knowledge of Japanese, so I wasn't able to get very far in resolving this. I put quite a lot of work into this project, but have moved on and am doing other things, so if someone with the knowledge and skills to do so wants to grab it and run with it, updating it and improving it, please have at. I've forgotten a lot of the details that went into the design of this, although the project contains a lot of documentation which I wrote at the time, so if you have problems, read the code and figure it out if you can. Don't ask me for support. Just make any necessary changes or improvements, send them to me, and I'll post them to the collection on the web server. -- Lindsay Haisley | "In an open world, | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | who needs Windows | available at 512-259-1190 | or Gates" | http://pubkeys.fmp.com http://www.fmp.com | | ------------------------------------------------------ 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
