[INFRA-14953] lists.a.o: Add support for mod_mbox Permalinks to lists.a.o

• Type: Planned Work
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Component/s: Mail Archives
• Project: Infrastructure
• Epic Link: lists.apache.org issues
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Sebb
• Created: 25/Aug/17 17:25
• Updated: 15/Sep/19 08:01
• Resolved: 15/Sep/19 08:01

Description

Existing mod_mbox Permalinks have the form:

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/<list-id>/YYYYMM.mbox/<Message-ID>

There are some other variants for the raw message:

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/<list-id>/YYYYMM.mbox/raw/<Message-ID>

and the links in the index pages:

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/<list-id>/YYYYMM.mbox/raw/<Message-ID>

Similarly for the private archives.

This means that there is sufficient info to be able to convert mod_mbox Permalinks into data that can be used to search lists.a.o:
Message-ID
List name
month (though lists.a.o originally used local time and it believes the Date: field rather than the arival time so the search may need to ignore the date)

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However note that such conversion is not likely to be possible for historical Permalinks generated by PonyMail/lists.a.o because the message id generators are very sensitive to the exact form of the input (and the software environment).

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