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Bug 170266 - mail archives should give a link to download the raw e-mail
Summary: mail archives should give a link to download the raw e-mail
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Websites
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Other (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: High enhancement
Assignee: Gentoo Infrastructure
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Reported: 2007-03-10 14:02 UTC by SpanKY
Modified: 2009-06-17 01:06 UTC (History)
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Description SpanKY gentoo-dev 2007-03-10 14:02:29 UTC
be nice if each page in the mail archives had a little link to the raw e-mail ... aka something you could download and stick into your .maildir (for cases where the mail server ate one of your e-mails and you want to fetch it for your local system)

http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_143318.xml
add like a [Raw E-Mail]
Comment 1 Robin Johnson archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2008-01-15 07:32:10 UTC
not sure about doing this for the spam implications.
make suggestions how we can protect it from spammers scanning addresses?
Comment 2 Ryan 2008-01-17 21:08:04 UTC
Maybe not provide the 100% raw , but the raw format with some select filters.  

Possibly using <at> and <dot> for the equiv's.  using a -<at>- and -<dot>-  Assuming spammers might scan for at and dot to appear next to each other, just remove them all together and put a space, So ryan@mail.tld becomes

ryan mail tld
Comment 3 Robin Johnson archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2009-06-17 01:06:28 UTC
WONTFIX, due to concerns about spammers.
However, as an intermediate option, I'd like to point out the archival-fetch from lists.g.o does work (look at the mlmmj docs for how) for the mails that exist in that archive (there are older mails that are lost unfortuntely).