Re: [hypermail] hypermail and majordomo

From: Erik Peterson <epeterson_at_edc.org_at_hypermail-project.org>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 08:23:42 -0500
Message-ID: <OFB5B06D8E.9083A015-ON85256B12.00479D27_at_edc.org>

I run a large number of Majordomo lists with Hypermail archives. It works really well, and is so far the only thing that I use Hypermail for...

The typical entry in aliases.majordomo would be something like:

testlist: "| /usr/local/majordomo/wrapper resend -l testlist -h mail.mydomain.com testlist-outgoMr993, nobody"

testlist-owner:         owner-testlist
owner-testlist:         me_at_mydomain.com
testlist-outgoMr993:      :include:/usr/local/majordomo/lists/testlist,
testlist-hm
testlist-hm:          "| /usr/local/bin/hypermail -i -u -c

/path/to/website/hypermail/testlist/.hmrc"

The last two entries really are the only important ones for your question. There is a mail alias for "testlist-hm" which simply takes the message when it goes out to the list and drops it into hypermail at the same time. You can also subscribe the "testlist-hm_at_mail.mydomain.com" to the list, but that screws up subscriber counts, etc.

The key parameters are "-i" which means grab the message from standard input and the -u which means update the archive instead of recreating it.

I also wrote a little sed filter which strips off the [listname] subject prefix which many of my lists have. This seems to make the website a little cleaner, since (unlike your inbox), the archive is only about one list...

in a file named ".filt"

s/^Subject:\(.*\)\[.*\]/Subject:\1/

Then my testlist-hm alias becomes:

testlist-hm: "|sed -f /path/to/.filt | /usr/local/bin/hypermail -i -u -c /path/to/website/hypermail/testlist/.hmrc"

I can use the same .filt file for all of my lists with subject prefixes that are in the form: "subject_prefix = [$LIST] " (although it would also strip out [other words] in the middle of the Subject if they were in brackets, but so far that hasn't come up.)

Hope that is somewhat helpful.

Erik

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Erik Peterson
Education Development Center, Inc.
epeterson_at_edc.org
http://www.edc.org
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                    Daniel Stenberg                                                                                      
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On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Mike Hamende wrote:



> Is there a dufus HOWTO for getting hypermail and majordomo to play

> together?  Thanks.


I've never seen one.

I usually have one 'maildump' account that has a .forward to run hypermail
properly, and then I add maildump in the "list-outgoing" alias.

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