Re: Some points on public-inbox

[Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org>]

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?

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