From: Peter C. McCluskey (pcm@rahul.net)
Date: Fri Nov 02 2001 - 18:45:22 CST
pln@razzle.stanford.edu ("Patrick L. Nolan") writes:
>I am using hypermail to archive a set of mailing lists.
>One of the archives has grown so big that it's unwieldy.
>The users are complaining. They want it broken up into
>sections. I looked at the code for mbox2hypermail and
>msg2archive. They seem to require that the messages be
>in a standard mbox format. Unfortunately I didn't keep
>that kind of file. Am I stuck?
There's a contrib/hypetombox.pl script that will convert an archive
back to mbox format, although it doesn't do a perfect job (it doesn't
handle attachments yet; I'll try to fix that any week now).
If that doesn't do a good enough job, then you might want to look at
the monthly_index and thread_file_depth options, which provide smaller
index files without breaking up the archive.
Note that the new folder_by_date and msgsperfolder options are probably
better than the msg2archive approach for breaking up an archive, although
they wouldn't eliminate the need for the mbox format.
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