From: Mark Clear (clear@ims.net)
Date: Mon Dec 20 1999 - 14:53:36 CST
I've been using hypermail 1.2 since dinosaurs roamed the earth, and with
Y2K looming, I'm finally migrating to 2.0b28. I am very impressed. Santa
should be very good to those who have been working so hard on it.
I am having a bit of trouble bending my mind around the threading. I'm
sure this has been discussed at length on the list, but if someone could
crystallize it for me, that would help. The problem as I see it is that HM
is not threading the way I expect it to. Some replies are indented once,
others are not indented at all. Nothing is indented more than one
level. Some messages are "maybe in reply to," others are "in reply to,"
implying that sometimes HM is not sure. This does not seem to be related
to the indenting. Setting the thrdlevels config variable doesn't seem to
have any effect at all.
Also, a minor documentation error. In customizing.html, the section "Using
Configuration File Entries" lists the template variables as:
hm_ihtmlheaderfile - the location of the INDEX header template.
hm_ihtmlfooterfile - the location of the INDEX footer template.
hm_mhtmlheaderfile - the location of the MESSAGE header template.
hm_mhtmlfooterfile - the location of the MESSAGE footer template.
Actually, the hm_ prefix should be dropped. It's correct in the sample
config file (hmrc.html).
Also, I have a documentation suggestion. In the overview, in the section
marked Running Hypermail automatically, I think we ought to also suggest
that in /etc/aliases you keep an up-to-date mbox file so that you can
rebuild the archive if necessary. I like to do it like this:
wulist: /wu-ftpd/mail-archive/mbox,"|/usr/local/bin/hypermail -i -u -d
/wu-ftpd/mail-archive -l \"WU-FTPD Mailing List Archive\""
Can I also make a development suggestion? (Like you could stop me at this
point?) A config variable for the name of the defaultindex (currently
"index" as defined in src/hypermail.h). Handy for people like me who have
non-standard DirectoryIndex directives on their web server.
Thanks for reading.
Mark Clear