Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:03:46 -0300
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>,
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Subject: Re: Email not searchable in our archives
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:

> I am wondering if we should bail out of Mhonarc all together. Do we
> actually need it? We have the actual mbox files right? Couldn't we
> build our own parser for whatever?
> 
> As a note, mailman also uses mbox files. We could try its archive
> generation capability.

Mailman archives are just as crappy, if not crappier.  And they know it.
It's based on Hypermail; I note that Hypermail's latest version happened
on 2003.  The Mailman guys are rethinking the issue; see 
http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/ModernArchiving

Somebody suggests Lurker as one alternative:
http://lurker.sourceforge.net/

It is a very different interface.  Perhaps we could try it as an
experiment.  I have seen the Debian lists under it and it feels really
martian.

I don't want to lose Mhonarc, at least not for the moment.  It is
powerful and customizable and has served us reasonably well for a very
long time.  (Longer than most of us, actually.)

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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