At one point in time, private message xml ticker output all messages contained within your Message Inbox, including archived messages. Quote from What XML generators are currently available on PerlMonks?:

private message xml ticker
Returns all /msgs for owning user (currently both archived and unarchived /msgs are returned, but this should be changed). Currently no parameters. Requires a login and does not generate XML for Anonymous Monk.

So it seems as though taking out archived messages was a planned event and that the documentation on xml tickers was not updated to reflect the changes made (grr!). And now, my question is whether there is an unknown or hidden xml ticker somewhere that provides access to archived nodes. If so, please someone point me to it. If there isn't, may I suggest a parameter to the existing private message ticker that makes the output include the archived messages? Just make it so that an appended ";archived=1" to the URI results in output of the archived messages.

And to distinguish between archived and non-archived messages, just use the 'state' attribute on the 'message' tag that was being used back when the archived messages were included (that attribute is still there to this day, but it always shows 'active' now).

Really, I don't see why access to archived messages was removed as if it were a bug. So please let me have my ";archived=1" method so I don't have to create some ugly web-scraping/parsing code to pull them out of Message Inbox.

In reply to Archived messages through xml ticker by Coruscate

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