[hypermail] NEwbie - Win 2000 questions (partial reply to list)

Dear Rev. Bob and others

Merry Christmas wishes to you and others at the list

This is a quick & partial reply.

>Btw, I'm not entirely sure what you're doing, but I have an archive at
><http://model-rr.crispen.org/archive/> that sounds something like what
>you want to do. Whenever I get an email from a Yahoo group or read a
>USENET posting that I want to save, I forward it to an email address at
>my domain host, and the message magically goes into a hypermail archive.

Ok!. you've been smart right from the beginning. I've woken up late ! :-( Since I can't get back copies of the yahoo groups **by mail** and the only way to look at yahoogroups archives is to use their Web interface

I intend to

• Read the mail from the Web interface of yahoo groups (relevant group's web page)
• Save the mail in the required format (Presently I'm using plain text format. I'm ready to save in alternate formats as you will advice)
• Run these saved mail thru Hypermail - offline (i.e) from 1 or many text file(s) on my win 2000 machine -> thru Hypermail ->output-> HTML file with the relevant links and indexes.
• then finally upload this output file somewhere (to a URL)

>I need to mention that the critical step is getting mail from the inbox
>to a pipe, where it can then head off to hypermail. Until I got my
>present domain host, I had no way to do that critical step. Fortunately,
>my present domain host (phpwebhosting.com) uses qmail, which provides
>that little extra bit of glue that makes it all work.
>
>I've played around at home, saving messages into a mailbox and then
>running it off-line through hypermail (which also sounds like what
>you're talking about). It works, but it isn't nearly as convenient as
>what I've got set up on my ISP.

As I have mentioned above I have to do without that convenience since I've started late and I can't forward mail to a hypermail archive list

So please let me know how I could do it offline (from my computer)

>I've always had the suspicion that if I
>could read German a little better, I'd be able to figure out how to do
>it in hamster on my Windows box.

Thanks for the yahoo to m box link as well. Will use that when necessary

TIA &
best Regards
aruL

On Wed, 24 Dec 2003, "Rev. Bob 'Bob' Crispen" <revbob_at_crispen.org> wrote:
>aruL maaran said on Wednesday, December 24, 2003 at 8:32:06 AM:
>
>> 1. http://www.hypermail.org/win32.html is too complicated
>> for me
>
>I agree. Fortunately, it doesn't apply any more. I keep asking Kent to
>take down that page (and to put up a page I've made about attaching a
>search engine to hypermail -- it's in the CVS tree: archive_search.html
>;^). Anyhow, that's ancient history. Cygwin has gotten so close to
>vanilla *ix that if you install Cygwin and the compiler tools, all you
>need to do is:
>
> ./configure
> make
>
>> do any of you know of a Win32 port for Hypermail ? which
>> will run straight off a win 2000 machine ?
>
>Email me with the address you want me to send it to, and I'll build you
>one. The principal reason we don't do binary distributions is that
>somebody has to build them, and afaik, I'm the only person on the team
>who's ever been interested in using hypermail on a Windows platform, so
>that somebody would automatically be me.
>
>I'd much rather handle requests one by one.
>
>Btw, I'm not entirely sure what you're doing, but I have an archive at
><http://model-rr.crispen.org/archive/> that sounds something like what
>you want to do. Whenever I get an email from a Yahoo group or read a
>USENET posting that I want to save, I forward it to an email address at
>my domain host, and the message magically goes into a hypermail archive.
>
>I need to mention that the critical step is getting mail from the inbox
>to a pipe, where it can then head off to hypermail. Until I got my
>present domain host, I had no way to do that critical step. Fortunately,
>my present domain host (phpwebhosting.com) uses qmail, which provides
>that little extra bit of glue that makes it all work.
>
>I've played around at home, saving messages into a mailbox and then
>running it off-line through hypermail (which also sounds like what
>you're talking about). It works, but it isn't nearly as convenient as
>what I've got set up on my ISP. I've always had the suspicion that if I
>could read German a little better, I'd be able to figure out how to do
>it in hamster on my Windows box.
>
>--
>Rev. Bob "Bob" Crispen
>bob at crispen dot org
>Ex Cathedra Weblog: http://blog.crispen.org/
>
>What we're looking for: destinations.
>What we end up getting: journeys.
>And the prize?
>You'll keep that on your shelf as a souvenir of the trip.
>
>
Received on Sun 28 Dec 2003 02:31:26 PM GMT