From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 7 09:09:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA08423 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 09:09:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (fallout.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA08415; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 09:09:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA11857; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 11:08:32 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 11:08:31 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber To: Paul DuBois cc: Wolfram Schneider , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HyperMail? (was Re: Interrupt lossage in FreeBSD-current. ) In-Reply-To: <199610070155.UAA19577@night.primate.wisc.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 6 Oct 1996, Paul DuBois wrote: > Wolfram Schneider writes: > > Amancio Hasty writes: > > >Has anyone thought of archiving mail in html format with a tool > > >similar to Hypermail?? > > > > > >Hypermail is a mail to html converter. > > > > I tried it and gave up. Hypermail is buggy and core'd > > with large input (> 1000-3000 mails). > > I have some patches for hypermail that may help. Look under: I figured out how to keep it from crashing (it choked on 8-bit stuff in headers as I recall) but it doesn't seems to scale very well. All told, the various freebsd mailing list archives are a couple hundred megabytes. You have to chop the files up into pretty small (like monthly) chunks for it to be usable but that is annoying for following threads that cross the break points. Hypermail just uses the file system for the database which just doesn't work that well for the sort of use an archive is often used for. Still, I'm not happy with the current arrangement (freewais-sf).. I've found the software to be terribly buggy. CNIDR's isearch is better but far to slow to be used on a machine that doesn't have enough memory to index in one pass. -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fallout.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ================