Saturday, May 15, 2010

Trying to figure out how to post to the mailing list

After subscribing to the mailing list (dev-subscribe@ant.apache.org) several messages had the following at the bottom of the emails.

To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@ant.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@ant.apache.org

I went back to http://ant.apache.org , clicked on mailing lists to see more information about the dev-help option. I saw this:
"To subscribe to a mailinglist use the links below. In your first email you will get some information about working with the list manager EZMLM."
EZMLM had a link, but it did not seem to be much help. It talked about how the email bot worked in general, but not specifically for the Ant project.

Seemed like an interesting idea to use their email bot to get information about the mailing list.

The response was pretty quick (a few minutes) and in summary, this is what I got:
"This is a generic help message. The message I received wasn't sent to any of my command addresses."

There was the unsubscribe email address from above, and a subscribe email address.
There was also one for information and one for FAQ:
dev-info@ant.apache.org
dev-faq@ant.apache.org

There were also instructions for subscribing to and unsubscribing from a digest version.
Also interesting were "commands" to get groups of messages from the archive by "message number".

To get messages 123 through 145 (a maximum of 100 per request), mail:
dev-get.123_145@ant.apache.org
To get an index with subject and author for messages 123-456 , mail:
dev-index.123_456@ant.apache.org
They are always returned as sets of 100, max 2000 per request, so you'll actually get 100-499.
To receive all messages with the same subject as message 12345, send a short message to:
dev-thread.12345@ant.apache.org

The messages should contain one line or word of text to avoid being treated as sp@m, but I will ignore their content. Only the ADDRESS you send to is important.

An email to dev-info returned the same general message but with the following :
No information has been provided for this list.

An email to dev-faq returned the same general message but with the following:
FAQ - Frequently asked questions of the dev@ant.apache.org.
None available yet.

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