If the sender is a subcriber to a mailing list, might it be useful to modify
the
list
manager (majordomo etc.) so that the Info sent as a greeting to new list members
would inform them of the location of the archive. usually a user can get this
information
via some kind of command (info list_name , for majordomo sites)
Any time that the archive is moved or initiated the notice should be sent to
all
list members. If this becomes a publishing/copyright problem then the archival
process
must become much more complicated,
I would not like to see any such modification be a default option in Mhonarc.
Earl Hood wrote:
On July 30, 1999 at 08:46, "Bert Hiddink" wrote:
Would it be possible to notify a subscriber everytime he/she sends a
message to a mailinglist, indicating where his/her message was
published by Mhonarc on the web?
Many things are possible, it is just matter if they are practical :-)
"Your message was published at:
http://www.site.net/mailinglist/msg00897.html
To send he/she an autoresponder would be more a task for Procmail, I
suppose but I would need then to include in this respons the
%messagenumber which is a Mhonarc variable.
First, I have to question the usefulness of such an auto-response.
It could get annoying.
With that said, a solution is to access some of the guts of mhonarc
with a custom front-end that can return the filename of the messages
that were added.
New messages are denoted by the %mhonarc::AddIndex hash. You
could create your own variation of mhonarc as follows:
MAIN: {
require 'mhamain.pl';
mhonarc::initialize();
if (mhonarc::process_input()) {
foreach (keys %mhonarc::AddIndex) {
print "File added: ", mhonarc::get_filename_from_index($_), "\n";
}
exit(0); # All is well
}
## Get here, some error occurred
exit($mhonarc::CODE);
}
Note, this will only generate filename output when ADD (-add) mode is
active. Make sure to give a different name for your custom version of
mhonarc.
You can now parse stdout from mhonarc to extract the filename(s) so
you can generate your auto-reply.
--ewh
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