[lug] Searching Mailman Archives

[Chip Atkinson]

You might be able to use htdig anyway and wrap the htdig access page in 
PHP to prevent unauthorized access.

I'm not sure how you'd prevent access via direct url access (a get) 
though.  There might be information on the htdig web page.

Chip

J. Wayde Allen wrote:

> I have several private mailing lists running under mailman, and am
> wondering if there is a good way to make the archives searchable.  This is
> an easy task for public archives (use htdig or something similar), however
> I haven't figured out a good approach for private archives.  These require
> authentication through the mailman server.  
> 
> I believe the archive storage format is pipermail and am wondering if a
> search engine cgi could run on the server with access to the cgi added to
> the mailman web pages?  The other idea would be to make the archives
> public, but set up the web server (Apache) to require authentication for
> access to these directories.  The problem here being that we'd now have
> two sets of passwords.  One password to access the mailman functions, and
> the other to get Apache to deliver the archives.  Maybe there is a way to
> synchronize these?
> 
> I suppose a third approach would be to use Apache to restrict access to a
> specific domain or sub-domain.  However, in this case it may still be nice
> to limit access to only the people involved with a given project.  That
> might mean restricting access to specific IP's.  Not sure that is a
> particularly nice solution either.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> - Wayde
>   (wallen at lug.boulder.co.us)
> 
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