Re: Mirroring mailing lists directly

["Mateusz Łoskot" <mateusz@loskot.net>]

On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 10:07:38PM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
>Mateusz Loskot <mateusz@loskot.net> wrote:
>> [...]
>> Is this plan correct, complete or am I missing anything?
>
>Looks close to me.

Thank you for the confirmation and all the very useful tips.

>I also suggest running public-inbox-nntpd in addition to -httpd
>for NNTP users.  It shares a common core with -nntpd and I have
>plans for a combined server to minimize memory use.

Yes, I will consider. Good idea.

>> Do I need to bother with public-inbox-watch's bidirectional sync?
>
>There is no bidirectional sync in -watch.  Perhaps you mean
>offlineimap?

Of course, it's offlineimap.


>You may also want to prevent your Maildir and IMAP folder from
>growing too large.  You can setup a cronjob to remove old mails
>from the Maildir; which causes offlineimap bidirectional sync to
>remove the old messages from IMAP, too.
>
>The following example removes mails older than 7 days:
>
>   cd /path/to/Maildir &&
>   find new cur -ctime +7 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f

Good idea. I have successfully married offlineimap and mutt
a few days ago, for GMail, so I now have pretty good
understanding of this workflow.

>> Once I get to the 4. and later points of the plan above,
>> I will get back to your other suggestions on the implementation
>> details.
>
>Alright, please do :)

I haven't done it yet.
Meanwhile, if it's nota secret could you tell a bit about
hosting of the public-inbox.org?

Is this a VPS or a VM solution, a docker container?
If a container, could you tell where do you host it?
I'm still looking for options.

Best regards,
-- 
Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net