[mlmmj] proposal: sending list-archive as mbox?

[mlmmj] proposal: sending list-archive as mbox?

[Moritz Wilhelmy]

Hi,

something I'd like to have as an extension to the listname+get-N@example.com
mechanism, which is rather cumbersome to use, would be a way to make mlmmj send
the whole archive as mbox, to have a flawless mail-only way to get archived
mails (I believe a MLM should be standalone and shouldn't depend on webstuff
for that matter).

Best regards,

Moritz

Re: [mlmmj] proposal: sending list-archive as mbox?

[Thomas Goirand]

----- Original message -----
> Hi,
> 
> something I'd like to have as an extension to the
> listname+get-N@example.com mechanism, which is rather cumbersome to use,
> would be a way to make mlmmj send the whole archive as mbox, to have a
> flawless mail-only way to get archived mails (I believe a MLM should be
> standalone and shouldn't depend on webstuff for that matter).

While getting all the archive at once is a good
idea, the mbox format isn't. IMHO, having each
post as a MIME attachement would be much better.

Thomas

Re: [mlmmj] proposal: sending list-archive as mbox?

[Ben Schmidt]

On 16/03/11 7:54 AM, Moritz Wilhelmy wrote:
 > something I'd like to have as an extension to the listname+get-N@example.com
 > mechanism, which is rather cumbersome to use, would be a way to make mlmmj send
 > the whole archive as mbox, to have a flawless mail-only way to get archived
 > mails (I believe a MLM should be standalone and shouldn't depend on webstuff
 > for that matter).

Even in these days of massive mailbox sizes, isn't this going to quickly
exceed maximum message sizes that many servers will deliver or accept?

Ben.

Re: [mlmmj] proposal: sending list-archive as mbox?

[Thomas Goirand]

----- Original message -----
> Even in these days of massive mailbox sizes, isn't this going to quickly
> exceed maximum message sizes that many servers will deliver or accept?
> 
> Ben.

The problem might be individual message size, not
the overall mailbox size. My servers are set to
a limit of max 2MB per msg. So a nice configurable
message limit would solve it (send as multiple msg
if it exeed the limit).

Thomas

Re: [mlmmj] proposal: sending list-archive as mbox?

[Moritz Wilhelmy]

Hi,

Well, I guess you're right, which inspired me to hack a little shellscript that
does this kind of archive creation.

I didn't implement the tar archiver (yet) because I don't need it.

http://paste.xinu.at/gcIq5/
consider it public domain.

It's actually quite hacky, but it works. The formail part is for From-escaping.
I'm going to run it via cronjob.


Best regards,

Moritz

Re: [mlmmj] proposal: sending list-archive as mbox?

[Mark Alan]

On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 21:54:27 +0100, Moritz Wilhelmy <ml+mmj@wzff.de>
wrote:

> use, would be a way to make mlmmj send the whole archive as mbox, to
> have a flawless mail-only way to get archived mails (I believe a MLM
> should be standalone and shouldn't depend on webstuff for that
> matter).

-1
Would rather like to see development time go into make a better MLM not
a better mail (un)archiver tool.

M.