Re: [Webware-discuss] Mail archives

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On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 03:06:01PM -0800, Chuck Esterbrook wrote:
> I have learned that the mail archives for the list (in "raw" mbox format) 
> *** as a 12MB download *** are kept here:
> 
> http://lists.sourceforge.net/archives/webware-discuss.mbox/webware-discuss.mbox
> 
> I assume -devel is likewise. If anyone wants to pretty these up in a 
> browsable, possibly searchable format, and put them on the web, that would 
> rock.
> 
> Unfortunately, it's one big file, so we'd have to pull the entire thing 
> each time we wanted to update those pages. 

Mailman uses Pipermail (1) to convert a mailbox to threaded HTML files
using the 'mmarch' program, (2) to incrementally add messages as they
come in.  It should be simple enough to figure out what the exact
Pipermail commands are for standalone use.

Then a 'bot just needs to subscribe to the list, feed new messages to
Pipermail's incremental command, and append them to the mailbox (if
Pipermail doesn't do that itself).

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