[EdLUG] Hello from a lurker and why is the list configured this way?

[Edinburgh Linux Users Group]

Hi,

The "old" archive pages were generated by Mhonarc on a regular schedule. 
All Mhonarc does is parse emails and turn them into static webpages 
which was adequate for what we want. It doesn't need to be ran on the 
same system as the mailserver or the webserver but it does need to "see" 
a copy of the messages i.e. be on a system that is a recipient of the 
messages and have read access to them.
If possible doing this on a server/hosted system would be better so the 
task could be automated and doesn't require human interaction.

The other question is about whether we should be hiding sender details 
on the mailing list itself. I can see good reasons for both approaches 
to be honest- I'm not so concerned about other EdLUGers seeing my name 
and email address but I'd rather they didn't end up visible on the wider 
internet so I get even more spam than I do currently :-)

Unfortunately I've reinstalled my machine at least once since I did the 
initial Sympa Mhonarc export so I no longer have the scripts and config 
files. Maybe this means that I need to fire up unixdev5.ucs.ed.ac.uk one 
last time....

Anyway it sounds like this is something that needs discussed and looked 
at as a group.

Mark.

On 27/03/16 17:31, Edinburgh Linux Users Group wrote:
>
> An umbrella list will partially solve the issue, however,  we are 
> hopefully trying to get a solution that will set the email addresses 
> in the archive in the form local_part at xxx.xxx which is how our 
> original archive was formatted. We can throw this into the ring and 
> use it as a fall back position if other options don't work.   This 
> whole issue was passed on to someone a number of months ago to look at 
> but I've not heard anything about progress.
>
> Regards
>
> Jan
>
> Sent from my Sony Xperia™ smartphone
>
>
>
> ---- Edinburgh Linux Users Group wrote ----
>
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 02:48:32PM +0100 <tel:+0100>, Edinburgh Linux 
> Users Group wrote:
> >    As we are, lug.org <http://lug.org> settings for pipermail 
> (mailman's archiving tool) are:
>
> I'm left confused about your requirements now!
>
> (BTW The source code is all available, so if someone cares enough about
> this, they can write and submit patches.)
>
> But the usual way to deal with requirements for conflicting settings is
> to break this into two separate pieces that don't conflict.
>
> Can whatever it is you are trying to achieve be done by using two
> mailing lists (what the docs call 'umbrella'), where the second one
> (doing the public archiving) is subscribed to the first (limited to
> members only)?  Then you get two independent sets of mailman settings
> to control.  Since emails then get to the second list from the first one
> via standard email, you also have the ability to customise the mail
> configuration to perform additional processing in between the lists
> (e.g. via procmail or a custom script or even directly in the exim
> configuration file).
>
> Alasdair
> -- 
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