[meshdb-devel] Re: [mesh] is it just my computer is the mailing list archive broke?

[Tony <td_...@ya...>]

 --- Ian Lister <il...@us...> wrote: 
> 
> The mail server is supposed to (but doesn't currently) invoke
> mailt via
> procmail to update a mailbox index (mbox.mi) as well as
> storing the mail
> in a normal mbox. The compute server runs a nightly cron job
> to rebuild
> the index file from the current contents of the mbox. The web
> server just
> reads the index and mbox.

That's reasonably justifiable, it is a mail ARCHIVE, so it
shouldn't really matter if you can only get messages from it
that are older than 1 day. It would use more CPU cycles just to
update the index each time an email arrives.

What is the command that is run to update the index ? 


> 
> I think FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris all work
> either out
> of the box or with minimal Makefile hacking. David's autotools
> work (on
> leonard-dev again) should improve this further, too.

Good, I've access to a RH 7.1 box that I'm currently downloading
the mbox to (220KB/s download - gotta love fast connections at
work !)

Where is this "leonard-dev" of which you speak ?

There will no doubt be many more questions as I start playing
with this. Also bear in mind that I may look at it, spend a few
days playing with it and then lose interest, I make no promises
:)


regards,
Tony.


	
	
		
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