Re: setting up mailman2 and public-inbox

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 10:33 AM Eric Wong <e@yhbt.net> wrote:

> Add a regular subscriber that receives mail via normal Mailman
> methods.
>
> Then setup public-inbox-watch to watch a Maildir that normal
> subscriber receives mail in.  The top of public-inbox-watch(1)
> manpage should give a reasonably complete example.

ahhh hurrah.

> I use offlineimap for IMAP <-> Maildir sync, but mbsync works
> just as well.  There's other methods, of course.

i like offlineimap.  we've not got an imap server set up however (my
experiences with cyrus2.2 and exim4 are well-documented and the source
of much amusement)

> There's absolutely no requirement for public-inbox to even run
> on the same machine as mailman|exim.  I run https://public-inbox.org/git/
> and do so using public-inbox-watch just as a regular subscriber
> with no special access to kernel.org whatsoever.

fortunately there are no local users on the server (at all) so playing
with it, to get this set up does no "damage".

> mbox is really only useful for one-shot imports and the
> scripts/import_vger_from_mbox example script was recently
> updated in git master to be more flexible.

ok good to know.

> > if we subscribe a local user on the server (inbox@libre-riscv.org) to
> > the actual list, then configure that local account to have mail
> > delivered Maildir format, would that do the trick?
>
> Exactly :)

hurrah :)

> I also suggest something to cleanup old messages, something
> like:
>
>         find /path/to/maildir -type f -ctime +14 -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f
>
> To delete all messages older than 14 days
>
> I'd like to eventually have an auto-deleter which verifies the
> message is successfully imported into an inbox (and not rejected
> as spam or triggered some other error).

yeah that would be really clean.  or, perhaps allow move the message
to a "read" Maildir folder?

thanks eric.

l.