From: Craig A Summerhill (craig@cni.org)
Date: Wed Mar 17 1999 - 01:59:18 CST
On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Eric Kimminau <eak@detroit.sgi.com> wrote:
>
> Is there a way to do something like, say, delete or archive all
> messages more than 12 months old, or a better way to re-index .html
> files than:
>
> whack all the old stuff
> convert *.html to mbox file
> rm *.html
> convert mbox to .html
Well, don't throw away the old mbox files when you're done converting
them into HTML.
The raw text doesn't take that much disk space - I've got nearly ten
years worth of archives from some 300 lists (currently 300, there are
only about 10 or 12 that run back the full decade) stored in about
300 MB of disk. The mbox files are broken into directories for each
list and files for monthly segments of the archive.
Then, when I want to reindex, I use a .hmrc file which has:
hm_overwrite = "1"
There is a front-end script which (a) runs manually or from the
crontab, (b) concatenates monthly mbox files into a temporary work file
(quarterly or annually -- based upon the volume of mail in the list),
(c) runs hypermail against the temporary work file, and (d) uses the
'-d' flag to direct the output to a target directory in my web tree.
If you only want to make the last 12 months (or some other number)
of the archives available, do something like the above and put a
routine in before step (b) checks the date and calculates how many
months of mbox files to concatenate into a temporary file...
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