Comments on: Random feature

By: Colin Marquardt

Colin Marquardt — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 23:28:24 +0000

Trying again: the header is something like

Archived-At: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.inkscape.devel/12081

By: Colin Marquardt

Colin Marquardt — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 23:27:25 +0000

It’s a bit off, but I just use http://gmane.org for all my mailing lists these days. And there, you get a header like

Archived-At:

Signing up a new list is very easy in case you are missing one.

By: Behdad Esfahbod

Behdad Esfahbod — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 03:26:06 +0000

Chris: PINE does have that feature, you can delete an attachment and it will not be saved when you save the message to a folder. Request it on your favorite mail reader.

As for original feature request, like suggested already, I believe it’s rather easy to implement: Apparently every message has an almost-unique Message-ID: something like: , all you need is for the mailing list software to provide a CGI that when appended this unique id, redirects to the actual archived message, and for it to add a header to the mail containing that URL. Maybe you should file a feature request with mailman first.

By: Chris Hubick

Chris Hubick — Sat, 24 Sep 2005 07:27:53 +0000

My pet feature request:

Some way to delete attachments from an email, but not the email itself.

Being one who likes to archive all my email, that way when a casual friend emails an update about themselves with a bunch of pictures, I can save the pics to my images archive folder, and keep the email without bloating my email folder. Same for work emails with big attachments, etc.

By: Stuart Langridge

Stuart Langridge — Sat, 24 Sep 2005 04:41:48 +0000

It should be reasonably easy to add the link; the link just needs to be to a server script rather than directly to a message URL. I agree that it’s difficult to know, at mail-send-from-mailserver time, what the archive URL of the message will be, but there’s no reason that it can’t be linked to http://example.org/listname/12345.wibble@example.org where 12345.wibble@example.org is the msgid of the message; that URL is a CGI which looks up the msgid in the correspondence list (msgid->URL) and redirects the user to the actual URL of the message. Pipermail, or whatever indexing tool is used, just needs to build the correspondence list when it adds messages to the archive.

By: Emily B.

Emily B. — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 22:46:26 +0000

thunderbird has a nice way of exposing this info via an extension called “Display Mailing List Header” or some such. screenshotted for you here:

http://atropine.ath.cx/~emily/images/list_header.png

it does seem like RFC 2369 leaves things open to be extended… like a List-Post-URL header ? i can’t understand what would be so hard about it at all.

maybe the first step is just submitting a patch to the mailing list software implementing this little header ?

By: Ian McKellar

Ian McKellar — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 18:04:07 +0000

My killer feature would be the ability to subscribe to a mailing list via its archive. Perhaps only via gzipped mboxes over http if thats available, but ideally my mailer would be able to parse common html archive formats. There are a lot of lists I want to read but never post and this would make lots-o-sense. Now camel has moved into e-d-s perhaps I’ll have another hack at it.

By: Rahul

Rahul — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 16:49:52 +0000

|Jef| was mentioned this a week or so before. Pretty nice feature to have