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#90 Archive URL in Email

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2003-01-16
2003-01-16
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When an email goes out, it should have the assigned URL
in the header. This requires you to know what it is as
you send it out which can be tricky. I don't know if
Mailman is designed to handle such a feature. I hope
it is!

Discussion

  • Jim C. Nasby

    Jim C. Nasby - 2005-08-23

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    I agree this would be extremely handy. I'd post the URL to a
    thread about it on mailman-users, but I'm too lazy to find
    it in the archive. Of course if there was a URL in the emails...

    FWIW, Brad Knowles posted that right now this isn't possible
    to do because the archives use a sequence number. If instead
    they used a hash of the email, then doing this would be easy.

     
  • Bryan Fullerton

    Bryan Fullerton - 2005-08-23

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    Some sort of unique identifier (a hash, or some other
    permanent ID tag inserted as a header in the .mbox file) for
    each message would be very useful if the archive is later
    modified and rebuilt.

    Currently if a message is removed or added and the archive
    rebuilt, search engines must reindex the entire archive to
    get the updated URL for each message based on the new
    sequence numbers. For large archives this is non-trivial.

    +1 for a unique and permanent URL per message, +0 for having
    the message URL included in the message/headers.

     
  • Oliver Schulze

    Oliver Schulze - 2006-03-04

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    DO you mean a header like X-List-*

     
  • Jim C. Nasby

    Jim C. Nasby - 2006-03-04

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    A header would certainly suffice. If you wanted to be really
    slick I guess you could allow people to add it to the footer
    sent with every email, though I'd never use that.

     

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