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Author: Jaromil
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Semi OT: Mailman, Lurker and referencing messages
On Tue, 02 Feb 2016, Florian Zieboll wrote:

> On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 13:55:20 +0000
> hellekin <hellekin@???> wrote:
>
> > I guess we can investigate and find out how to generate these from
> > mailman, and then have a nice URL like:
> > https://lurker.devuan.org/<some-hash> to redirect to the relevant
> > lurker message. This would also make Devuan Editors' lives easier
> > when working on the newsletter.
>
> Another loose thought on this: To spare the mailing list machine(s) the
> additional burden of hashing, wouldn't it be sufficient to add a simple
> counter to mailman and make it inject the count (plus perhaps some list
> and/or machine ID) as a new header to the mail before passing it to the
> archiver?


I haven't look at any existing solution, but I believe that a good
approach would be to use the actual message-id: in the headers, which is
also an identifier to retrieve email from lurker. But I have no idea if
that header is exported as a variable for mailman's templates.

ciao