[Dovecot] Serve list archives by dovecot IMAP
Has anyone considered setting up a Dovecot public server to serve the list archives by IMAP? Or does Dovecot not do anonymous read-only access?
(I note by comparison that the Cyrusoft Mulberry list archives are served by an IMAP server. http://www.cyrusoft.com/mulberry/support/anonimap.html)
It should be sufficient to set up Dovecot on some server in the dovecot.org domain and subscribe it to the lists.
On 2004-05-23 13:13:23 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:
Has anyone considered setting up a Dovecot public server to serve the list archives by IMAP? Or does Dovecot not do anonymous read-only access?
(I note by comparison that the Cyrusoft Mulberry list archives are served by an IMAP server. http://www.cyrusoft.com/mulberry/support/anonimap.html)
It should be sufficient to set up Dovecot on some server in the dovecot.org domain and subscribe it to the lists.
http://www.dovecot.org/mailinglists.html links imap://dovecot.org/dovecot-cvs/%;TYPE=LIST (at the bottom)
hope this helps
darix
On 23.5.2004, at 23:13, Kenneth Porter wrote:
Has anyone considered setting up a Dovecot public server to serve the list archives by IMAP? Or does Dovecot not do anonymous read-only access?
There used to be, but then I upgraded the Dovecot in that server to version where mbox didn't work anymore. Now dovecot.org runs in different server so I guess I could put it back using 0.99.10. Or maybe 1.0-tests once it's mbox code is working well..
--On Sunday, May 23, 2004 11:58 PM +0300 Timo Sirainen tss@iki.fi wrote:
There used to be, but then I upgraded the Dovecot in that server to version where mbox didn't work anymore. Now dovecot.org runs in different server so I guess I could put it back using 0.99.10. Or maybe 1.0-tests once it's mbox code is working well..
Why does the mailbox format matter? If you just subscribe a dummy user on the IMAP server and point the anonymous directory to that user, you should be able to decouple that. If the result doesn't use mbox, then use your favorite conversion utility to migrate the existing archive before subscribing.
On 24.5.2004, at 01:09, Kenneth Porter wrote:
--On Sunday, May 23, 2004 11:58 PM +0300 Timo Sirainen tss@iki.fi wrote:
There used to be, but then I upgraded the Dovecot in that server to version where mbox didn't work anymore. Now dovecot.org runs in different server so I guess I could put it back using 0.99.10. Or maybe 1.0-tests once it's mbox code is working well..
Why does the mailbox format matter? If you just subscribe a dummy user on the IMAP server and point the anonymous directory to that user, you should be able to decouple that. If the result doesn't use mbox, then use your favorite conversion utility to migrate the existing archive before subscribing.
Mailman generates mboxes by itself anyway and mboxes are the fastest format for non-changing mailboxes.
Anyway It's mostly because I've been lazy and haven't thought anyone would really even care about it. If you really want it now I could set it up. But I'd rather wait a while and make 1.0-test version do it so I wouldn't have to configure it again later :)
--On Monday, May 24, 2004 5:46 AM +0300 Timo Sirainen tss@iki.fi wrote:
Anyway It's mostly because I've been lazy and haven't thought anyone would really even care about it. If you really want it now I could set it up. But I'd rather wait a while and make 1.0-test version do it so I wouldn't have to configure it again later :)
No rush. I solved today's problem. ;) (I was trying to figure out how to configure my client to adapt to Dovecot's handling of my UW-IMAP hierarchy after a Fedora upgrade.) I ended up copying the Mailman archive to my other server still running UW-IMAP so I could use Mulberry to get a usable thread view.
On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 01:13:23PM -0700, Kenneth Porter may have written:
Has anyone considered setting up a Dovecot public server to serve the list archives by IMAP? Or does Dovecot not do anonymous read-only access?
(I note by comparison that the Cyrusoft Mulberry list archives are served by an IMAP server. http://www.cyrusoft.com/mulberry/support/anonimap.html)
It should be sufficient to set up Dovecot on some server in the dovecot.org domain and subscribe it to the lists.
You may also want to look at the posterity project. It is designed to do exactly what you are describing.
http://multivac.cwru.edu./posterity/
Cheers,
Brian T Glenn delink.net Internet Services
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