The mailing list for listmasters using Sympa

[Kevin McCann <address@concealed>]

This, in my opinion, is what is sorely needed in the existing open source 
MLMs. It would be very nice to have a messages table with, at the very least:

- subject
- author
- date
- body
- headers

And maybe even expand the headers for those who want to create non-Mhonarc 
archives :

- msg-id
- in-reply-to
- references

and fields to help parse multi-part messages

- boundary
- content-type
- content-disposition
- content-transfer-encoding

all in an easily accessible database such as MySQL. The only package I know 
of that does this kind of thing nicely (well, not the separate header 
fields) is Lyris, which is a commercial product with a prohibitive cost. 
The lack of a SQL DB messages table is one of the big things that is 
separating the open source mailing list packages such as Sympa and Mailman 
from Lyris and really ought to be high up on the features wish list.



- Kevin




At 11:23 AM 26/03/03 -0300, Juan Nin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking at Sympa for using it in a project I'll have to do for my
> University.
> It's a kind of yahoogroups programmed in PHP
>
> I'll probably use Sympa for managing the lists, and I want to know if it's
> possible to store the messages in a databse.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Juan