From: Peter C. McCluskey (pcm@rahul.net)
Date: Sat Mar 17 2001 - 22:20:38 CST
I'm dissatisfied with scripts that accomplish this by calling
hypermail with different directories and the like, in part because
they screw up the links between related messages that end up in
different directories.
Here's an outline of how I propose to integrate the splitting into
the main hypermail program. Please comment.
Add 2 new options tentatively called folder_by_date and msgsperfolder.
folder_by_date would append a subdirectory name to set_dir when
generating filenames. The directory name would be created by calling
strftime with a user-specified format string (such as "%y%m") and the
date field info from struct emailinfo.
msgsperfolder would work by, instead of generating a filename with
something like: "%.4d.%s", msgnum, set_htmlsuffix
using: "%d/%.4d.%s", msgnum/set_msgsperfolder, msgnum % set_msgsperfolder, ...
or: "%d/%.4d.%s", msgnum/set_msgsperfolder, msgnum, ...
(I'm not sure yet how I want to choose between these 2 possibilities;
probably yet another config switch - not sure which should be the default.)
Top level index pages:
One new file, similar to the summary.html produced by the monthly_index
option that I added recently. Its name should probably default to index.html.
thread, subject, date, and author.html files that cover the messages
in all folders for this list should be available, but probably disabled
by default.
Index pages within folders would work the same as in the single
directory case, indexing messages within the folder, but with added
links to the top level index pages and to the index pages of the next and
previous folders. [For threads that span multiple folders, should there
be an option to show the entire thread in the thread.html of each folder
which has some of its messages?]
For sites that want to have a fixed url that points to whatever folder
is most recent, add an option to have hypermail maintain a symlink to it, e.g.
latest_folder=latest
in .hmrc would create a symlink named "latest".
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