Well... I think that it's probably the shortest route to a functioning zope archive to use mailman- already written in python, and modular enough that we should be able to take it one step at a time.
In browsing the MailMan lists, I recall reading about someone setting up an archiver script that received each mail message and saved it into Zope via WebDAV, so each msg became a document. I didn't save the link, but that might be the *fastest* way to get started with archiving (and potentially indexing, etc) mail in Zope: - script (in Python, of course!) receives mail, or add to Mailman - script talks WebDAV, and saves it into a folder (or subfolder by-date?) in Zope - this becomes a DTML document -- I don't know enoug Zope yet to know if this could be a customized/subclassed DTML doc that was smart enough to parse RFC822, save fielded and raw search info into ZCatalog, etc). - everything Zope can do with a collection of items is yours! This sounded cool to me... Anyone going to try? Karl