* Re: [mlmmj] proposal: sending list-archive as mbox?
2011-03-15 20:54 [mlmmj] proposal: sending list-archive as mbox? Moritz Wilhelmy
@ 2011-03-16 3:04 ` Thomas Goirand
2011-03-16 3:37 ` Ben Schmidt
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From: Thomas Goirand @ 2011-03-16 3:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mlmmj
----- 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
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2011-03-15 20:54 [mlmmj] proposal: sending list-archive as mbox? Moritz Wilhelmy
2011-03-16 3:04 ` Thomas Goirand
@ 2011-03-16 3:37 ` Ben Schmidt
2011-03-16 4:03 ` Thomas Goirand
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From: Ben Schmidt @ 2011-03-16 3:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mlmmj
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.
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2011-03-15 20:54 [mlmmj] proposal: sending list-archive as mbox? Moritz Wilhelmy
2011-03-16 3:04 ` Thomas Goirand
2011-03-16 3:37 ` Ben Schmidt
@ 2011-03-16 4:03 ` Thomas Goirand
2011-03-16 15:18 ` Moritz Wilhelmy
2011-03-16 15:34 ` Mark Alan
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From: Thomas Goirand @ 2011-03-16 4:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mlmmj
----- 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
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* Re: [mlmmj] proposal: sending list-archive as mbox?
2011-03-15 20:54 [mlmmj] proposal: sending list-archive as mbox? Moritz Wilhelmy
` (2 preceding siblings ...)
2011-03-16 4:03 ` Thomas Goirand
@ 2011-03-16 15:18 ` Moritz Wilhelmy
2011-03-16 15:34 ` Mark Alan
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From: Moritz Wilhelmy @ 2011-03-16 15:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mlmmj
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
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2011-03-15 20:54 [mlmmj] proposal: sending list-archive as mbox? Moritz Wilhelmy
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2011-03-16 15:18 ` Moritz Wilhelmy
@ 2011-03-16 15:34 ` Mark Alan
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From: Mark Alan @ 2011-03-16 15:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mlmmj
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.
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