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From: Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org>
To: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Cc: meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: Re: Some points on public-inbox
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 15:19:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874li887mp.fsf@vuxu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180612100915.shfo3ltn6aj55mrf@dcvr> (Eric Wong's message of "Tue, 12 Jun 2018 10:09:15 +0000")

Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> writes:

>> 6) I have a user account that uses .forward to call public-inbox-mda,
>> and use /etc/aliases to route the lists that are hosted primarily on
>> the server to it.  What's the best approach to do this for mailing
>> lists I only mirror? Subscribe with a "secret" second address to the
>> list, and add this second adress to publicinbox.<name>.address?
>> Or can public-inbox-mda also scan for List-Id etc and sort by it somehow?
>
> I prefer to use public-inbox-watch for mirroring existing lists.
>
> -mda is also a bit strict and opinionated (though I have plans to
> make it less so, optionally), so it's mainly for non-mirrored
> inboxes.
>
> -watch is also safer and less likely to lose/bounce mail since
> it hits a Maildir, first.  -watch will scan for List-Id (or any
> other header, such as X-Mailing-List) and put it into the
> correct inbox.  If space is a problem, a cronjob to remove
> old files will help, but maybe it can unlink-on-import-commit
> in the future.

Ok, that was a bit more fiddly than expected, because now I needed to
run two MDA under the same user.

Also I noticed public-inbox-watch expects different Maildir for every
list, so I had to put a maildrop in front of it to pre-sort by
List-Id... couldn't -watch do that itself?

-- 
Leah Neukirchen  <leah@vuxu.org>  http://leah.zone

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-06-12 13:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-09 17:06 Some points on public-inbox Leah Neukirchen
2018-06-12 10:09 ` Eric Wong
2018-06-12 11:31   ` Leah Neukirchen
2018-06-13  2:07     ` [PATCH] Makefile.PL: do not depend on git Eric Wong
2018-06-13 14:26       ` Leah Neukirchen
2018-06-13 21:04         ` Eric Wong
2018-06-13 21:20           ` Leah Neukirchen
2018-06-13 21:40     ` Some points on public-inbox Eric Wong
2018-06-13 22:43       ` [PATCH] www: use undecoded paths for Message-ID extraction Eric Wong
2018-06-26  7:46         ` [PATCH] additional tests for bad Message-IDs in URLs Eric Wong
2018-06-12 13:19   ` Leah Neukirchen [this message]
2019-01-05  8:39     ` Some points on public-inbox Eric Wong
2018-06-12 17:05   ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2018-06-13  1:57     ` Eric Wong
2019-04-18  8:25   ` [RFC] www: support listing of inboxes Eric Wong
2019-05-05 23:36     ` Eric Wong

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