From: Ashley M. Kirchner (ashley@pcraft.com)
Date: Fri Oct 08 1999 - 17:32:03 CDT
On Sat, 9 Oct 1999, Bjoern Krueger wrote:
: My goal is to set up a monthly archive of my mailinglists. I have
: already read the FAQ and fiddled a bit with the Makefile in
: ./hypermail/archive/ but I am not getting it (?
: my-my-mailinglist-name_mail ??) compiled. As I am no C professionell
: and cannot reach any, I must rely on your kind advice again.
:
: I simply want one mailinglist to which an alias name is subscribed
: (and points to |"/usr/local/bin/hypermail -i -u -c
: /usr/local/bin/hypermail.conf") to be set up into months. The simple
: version without any ordering except threads is already working (which
: I am very glad about! ;))
A while ago I needed the same thing done (a while, sometime last
year I think) and at the time I was running tight on time, so I made
something real quit that works just fine for me.
What I do is, I archive all messages that come in through the list
(I run the list through Majordomo). Then, every hour, I have a crontask
that grabs that archive and filters it through hypermail. The script is
what will create the month folders for me automatically, so I don't have
to worry about it at the end of the month and such.
The only drawback (and at the time I did realize it but like I
said, I was pressed for time, so I had to deal with it) is that I had to
instruct hypermail to overwrite everything every single time the crontask
ran. This was the only way I could get the threading and indexing working
properly.
I suppose I could've just cached the previous archive from the
previous hour, then only extract the difference between that one and the
recent one and run those through hypermail.
There are several ways of doing this, I'm sure. Someone's bound
to come up with an idea... This was mine (which by the way is still
running with no problem)
AMK4
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