>From: Ian Jacobs <[email protected]>
>Organization: W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
>
>Hi folks,
>
>I thought I'd look at procmail as a way of routing email
>for my new domain "purplecrayon.org". The following recipe
>seems to do what I want it to do:
> 1) Forward mail to N people on the purple crayon mailing list
> 2) Give me a copy
> 3) Put a copy in a mailbox that will be used to build
>    an HTML archive
>
>Here's the recipe:
>
>--------------------------------------------------
># Forward, then copy to IN.pc and my local mailbox
>:0
>* ^TO_people@purplecrayon\.org
>{
>#       :0c
>#       ! [email protected] [email protected] ...
>
>        :0c:
>        my-local-mailbox
>
>        :0:
>        purple-crayon-mailbox
>}
>-------------------------------------------------
>
>Here's the question: Should I not be using procmail at all?
>I haven't tried out SmartList or anything else.
>
>Currently Mail goes from the machine that hosts purplecrayon.org
>to my email account on another machine (the sysfolks did that for
>me). It's on that machine (tux) that I am using this procmail
>recipe.
>
>Any suggestions welcome. The next step after this one will be
>building an online archive. The next step after that may be to
>provide secure access to that archive. All on a machine where
>I don't have root access!

On the shared box that Purplecrayon.org is on?  I don't see why you
can't have root, you want me to add your key?

You could do all (to multiple recipients, to file and to process[es])
that within the aliases file, which would require root or procmail.
Procmail is much more flexible.

Smarlists is procmail based and does the subscription, recipient
lists, and other administrative tasks.  It hands off to hypermess a
close relative of hypermail http://www.hypermail.org for generating
the web page archives.  **Make sure you have it split out by month
(there's FAQ on hypermail's site for that) or it has to recreate the
indexes by author, date and thread on an increasingly larger archive
and will chomp the cpu.

Web access restrictions can be configured in your case in apache with
.htaccess and simple base authentication.

Gerald,

How do you get your main index pages?   I like it's by month tallies
and last 10 messages format.

http://impressive.net/archives/fogo/

Here's a sample (actually fogo gets lumped in with a number of other
lists I'm on).  I moved my web and mail services to a machine at MIT
instead of hosting from home and should generate my archives there but
haven't moved them yet and they aren't part of my rsynching setup.  

:0 c:
* ! ^TO.*[email protected]
| /usr/local/bin/msg2archive -L lists -A /usr/local/apache.guilds.net/htdocs/archives/lists -H /usr/local/bin/hypermail -l "random lists"  -M /usr/local/apache.guilds.net/htdocs/archives/lists/.mailbox

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