Tabor J. Wells wrote:
> Maybe I'm missing something but I think you're making this more difficult
> than it has to be. Why not use the archive2.pl script as included with
> Majordomo
I was going to say the same thing myself, but realised that making Exim
append the Majordomo archive makes more sense. (Why start a Perl script
to do a job that Exim can do itself perfectly well?) I just have a
director something like
list_aliases:
file = /etc/aliases.lists
user = majordom
group = mail
mode = 600
and then create aliases like
list-mkarchive: /usr/majordomo/lists/list.archive/list.199808
and make list-mkarchive a subscriber to the list. Then once a month just
do something like
sed 's/\.[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]$/'.`date +%Y%m`/ ...
to update the filename extension in the alias file. I've been using
this setup for, uh, three minutes :-) and it seems to work alright.
[you'll probably want to add a condition to that director
so only Majordomo can append the archives - see the FAQ at
http://www.netmaster.ca/exim/majordomo.html, I think that's the URL
anyway.]
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