Re: Program Delivery and Archiving

Any recommendations on a Mac OS X capable program that will act as a web 
browsable archive of whatever emails that I pull from that POP account?

-Bruce-

On 5/16/05 at 12:15 dan.cynosure@xxxxxxxxxxx (DC) stated:

>forget program delivery - too complicated. just set up a POP account 
>that's signed up on the mailing list and pull that account using PHP or 
>Perl or a shell cron job running fetchmail (or whatever). then, create 
>your archive from the POP account.
>
>my 2,
>dan
>
>Bruce Sommer had written:
>> Does anybody have a recommendation regarding a console app that can be used 
>with Post.Office to create a web browsable archive of email messages from a 
>mailing list?  I want to be able to provide mailing list members the option of 
>reading past threads via the web.  This would be used in conjunction with the 
>"Program Delivery" option:
>>     
>> "Program Delivery
>> 
>> Select this option to turn on delivery of incoming messages to external 
>programs. Program Delivery allows the user to have incoming mail redirected to 
>an "console app" (non-GUI) program. This program can be supplied by the user 
>(although it must be copied into the "trusted" directory, e.g. 
>/usr/local/post.office/trusted, by the UNIX system administrator).
>> 
>> The delivery program is invoked once for each incoming message, which is fed 
>into the delivery program via STDIN. The delivery program runs in the security 
>context of the UNIX user account specified in the Program Delivery section of 
>the account management web form.
>> 
>> Program Deliveries require special security considerations and should not be 
>enabled without referring to the Manual and ensuring the desired configuration 
>has been set up. Program-Delivery capability is disabled by default during 
>installations and upgrades."
>> 
>> TIA for any assistance that can be provided.
>> 
>> -Bruce-
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