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[Olivier Salaün - CRU <address@concealed>]

Hi Marco,

We've already had a feature request to provide plugins for alternate 
archiving ; it is described here : 
http://sourcesup.cru.fr/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1322&group_id=23&atid=170

Please read it and complete the feature request if you feel something is 
missing.

Marco Gaiarin wrote:
> I'm starting to migrate my home server, and i want to move from
> ancient smartlist to sympa.
>
> For hystorical reason (i was a FidoNET BBS ;) i want to keep a
> bidirectional gateway with a news server (INN).
> I've build up a custom set of procmail script to handle news<->mail
> conversion, handling dupes and so on.
> But clearly all this stuff it is indipendent from the gateway used.
>
> I've read:
>
>         
> http://www.sympa.org/wiki/faq/tips_and_howto#mailing_lists_and_newsgroups
>
> but i think this is rather suboptimal, for two reason:
>
> 1) as i can use rnews to inject the messages to news server, would be better 
> to have somewhere in the message crunching process (optimally:
> after the mail are considered approved) a pipe to a user-defined program.
> Probably i can hack the mhonarc call to 'dupe' the message and send a copy to 
> the real mhonarc and a copy to my conversion script, but this
> is not optimal (it is not after the message got approved ;) and indeed i 
> don't know how to do that. ;)
>   
I don't understand why this is not optimal ; messasges get archived only 
once approved.
> 2) i can use moderation (or better, as do i a fake feed definition and
>  a script that explode the feed and send individual posts), but if the
> destination list are moderated, it is easy that message will not be
> approved.
> Smartlist in header-identify code correctly (ahem, at least with a
> decent probability ;) identify real sender, not the simple From: .
> So for smartlist i've simply put news on 'trusted user', so the gateway
> can set the sender, and add that custom sender to the subscribers
> (accept2, in smartlist language).
> How can i do that in sympa? Re-stating clearly: how, and possibly for a
> user only, can i 'mark' the message so they are approved, in a secure
> manner?
>