Re: [libreoffice-website] Wrong message count in TDF mail archive?

Hi Christian, *

Christian Lohmaier schrieb:
> Hi Bernhard, *,
>
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Bernhard Dippold
> <bernhard@familie-dippold.at>  wrote:
> > The mail message number at the TDF mail archive is not the message number in
> > the mails header and thus not the one to be used to get a specific mail.
>
> The archiving is done by a different software than the mailinglist
> handling. So not sure whether there is a way to guarantee consistency
> even if we tried.
>
> That was one of the reasons to add the mail-archive.com headers [...]
>
> > Should we provide consistent mail numbers, allowing people to refer to the
> > right mail numbers from the archive?
>
> Referring to mails by ID like that is very fragile, better use msg-id
> or a hash like from mail-archive.com, that way you can restore them.

I wanted to find an easy way to get the msg-number in order to reply to 
any message even if I haven't been subscribed to the mailing list when 
the mail had been sent.

With the [list]+get-[msg-number]@[subsite].libreoffice.org message 
retrieval this is possible, with mail-archive.com it's just a reference.

But as I found out that the number is part of the header (in 
Return-Path), I can handle this without the need for synchronized archives.

I don't know if there is a wiki page on mailing list subjects, but if 
there is, it might be worthwhile to add a phrase about the get function 
and the place where to find the message number.
> [...]

Thank you for the fast and helpful reply!

Best regards

Bernhard

--
Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to website+help@global.libreoffice.org
Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette
List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/website/
All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted