Integrating Mailman and MHonArc.

A while ago (in a galaxy, far, far away) I wrote this Python class to integrate
mailman and mhonarc. I keep getting queries about how it works and thought the 
best thing to do would be to document it.

So, grab a copy of MHonArc.py and follow along.

First you'll need to modify mm_cfg.py -- which could be in 
/etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py or in /usr/local/etc/ or somewhere else. You need to 
modify some of the archiving code as well. 

In mm_cfg.py add something like this (all on one line):

MHONARC = ' ( /usr/bin/mhonarc -q -add -outdir %(archivedir)s -rcfile
/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/%(listname)s/%(listname)s.rc
-lockdelay 20 -locktries 40 )'

Make sure you modify the path to mhonarc and where the list archives are though!

Next you will want to modify Archiver.py with the following changes:

--- Archiver.py.orig           2002-10-11 01:19:13.000000000 +0800
+++ Archiver.py          2002-09-19 16:44:19.000000000 +0800
@@ -216,9 +216,12 @@
             else:
                 # use the internal archiver
                 f = StringIO(txt)
-                import HyperArch
-                h = HyperArch.HyperArchive(self)
-                h.processUnixMailbox(f, HyperArch.Article)
+                         #import HyperArch
+                         #h = HyperArch.HyperArchive(self)
+                         #h.processUnixMailbox(f, HyperArch.Article)
+                         import MHonArc
+                         h = MHonArc.HyperArchive(self)
+                         h.processUnixMailbox(f)
                 h.close()
                 f.close()
        except:

Which is basically comment out the HyperArch class and replace it with a
call to the MHonArc one instead.

I'm still using it at lists.linux.org.au and it seems to work well. There
are some outstanding issues:

             - the archive index has archivied months listed in the generated
               HTML page as most recent last (i.e. 2001 comes before 2002; e.g.
               http://lists.linux.org.au/archives/linux-aus/) (small)

             - It'd be nice to expose some of the MHonARC archiving options via
               MailMan itself and/or modify MHonArc itself to pull options
               out from the list database that Mailman uses. (big)

             - I really should come up with a good sample .rc file for
               MHonARC which generates Thread, Subject, Author and Date
               (small) Perhaps integrate slug/progsoc ones?

Let me know how it goes and if there are any issues. Based upon your
feedback perhaps I can write something better for the next person who
tries this out.

Thanks,
Anand Kumria <wildfire@progsoc.uts.edu.au>