This module contains a Mailman archiver plugin which sends emails to the Public Inbox archiver.

The source code is available on Github https://github.com/tohojo/mailman-public-inbox

For this archiver to work, you need a working public-inbox installation that has been initialised for your mailing list. Basically, you need to have run public-inbox-init and public-inbox-index for the list already (see their man pages for instructions).

The archiver will run public-inbox-mda --no-precheck for each message, after first parsing the public-inbox config to find the list ID using either the posting_address or list_id config options from public-inbox. The archiver will also generate a permalink for the message based on the ‘url’ public-inbox config parameter and the message ID, which will be used by mailman for the Archived-At header.

Install the module to your Python path so Mailman can find it. Then add this to your mailman.cfg:

[archiver.public_inbox]
class: mailman_public_inbox.PublicInbox
configuration: /etc/mailman-public-inbox.cfg
enable: yes

And copy over the mailman-public-inbox.cfg file from this repository to /etc/, adjusting the variables as necessary.

The plugin will just call public-inbox-mda, so you need to already have configured public-inbox to recognise the list (i.e., run public-inbox-init and public-inbox-index beforehand. Since mailman will run public-inbox under its own credentials, permissions also need to be set to allow this; just setting the ownership of the public-inbox data directories to be the mailman user is one way to achieve this.

This module is licensed under the GPL v3.0

Copyright (C) 2021 by Toke Høiland-Jørgensen