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MailArc Plugin

This plugin will allow you to use Gossamer List as an archive for mailing list.

+ Mail gateway configuration:

The following instructions are for the configuration of a system using Unix/Linux and sendmail.

  • The MailArc plugin allows you to send a message from your desktop email client (Outlook) to GList, and GList will forward the message out to the lists within GList.

    We must then edit the sendmail aliases file. Often, it is located at "/etc/aliases". We will take advantage of the facility to associate a program with any arbitrary email address. For example: If we want to create a special listener on the listowner_5 mailing list with the email address listowner_\@somehost.com (where somehost.com is your server's domain name) we can enter the following line into your aliases file. You will probably have to be root to make this change.

    listowner_5: "|$CFG->{priv_path}/archive.pl"


    Up to the ":" is the the username for the new email address. The rest of the configuration string tells sendmail to invoke the script "archive.pl" every time an email comes in for that user.

    To make sure that your mail server is able to use this change, you must convert the "aliases" configuration file into a format that sendmail can understand. To do so, run the command "sendmail -bi" as root or as the mail system administrator.

    [root\@penguin GList]# sendmail -bi
    /etc/aliases: 20 aliases, longest 70 bytes, 307 bytes total
    Jan 17 09:50:49 192 sendmail[9398]: alias database /etc/aliases rebuilt by root

    Don't forget sign up this new email address to your mailing-list.
  • If you do not have the level of control to make changes to the "aliases" file or are under a different system, the "archive.pl" script runs as a mail pipe accepting emails from STDIN. Contact your system administrator for the best option.

+ MailArc POP3 Guide :

    You may use MailArc to pull out all emails from a POP3 account and archive them into your GList. The command below should be run directly from your command line or should be set up as a cron job:

    archive.pl --forum=x --pop-host=your_pop_host --pop-user=your_pop_user --pop-pass=your_pop_pass

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