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

[Ian L. <il...@us...>]

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Tony wrote:
> --- 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.

A live archive is nice. The incremental update mostly works (but isn't
being run) but every so often gets mucked up, which is the reason for the
nightly rebuild.

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

mailt, which is in CVS under src/mailt.

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

It's a branch in CVS:

  http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/meshdb/?only_with_tag=leonard-dev

>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

I know how it is :-)

Ian