[Gambas-user] Mailinglist was down for a few hours

[T Lee Davidson]

On 8/31/20 4:40 AM, Christof Thalhofer wrote:
>> I don't care for the interface provided by mlmmj-webarchiver. It
>> appears to be browseable only by date.
> It can also display a threaded view like so:
> http://www.libssh.org/archive/libssh/2020-07/
> 
> That's not much more than what we have now. In principle we don't need
> more, because it is only there to run a search engine on it.

To me, that looks like less than what we have now. Mailman provides for viewing by thread, subject, author, and date. And, I 
like being able to browse the messages.


> And that's the next problem: The search engine we use (Mnogosearch) is
> outdated and will not be developed or even fixed in future. But its the
> only one I found which can handle UTF8 and run as a simple program
> switched on by cron every few hours.

Xapian(/Omega) [https://xapian.org/]? It should be in the Debian repo.


>> I don't see the MLMMJ documentation specifying what format the
>> archive uses, and the link to the scripts (which use hypermail to
>> create web-browseable archives) and details
>> [http://mlmmj.org/archive/mlmmj/2010-08/1710.html] is 404. So, I
>> don't know how difficult it would be to interface the archive to
>> Hypermail.
> Also no idea here. We would have to investigate, create a mlmmj test
> mailinglist by ourselves and have a look at it.
> 
> I just found that:
> https://trac.common-lisp.net/clo/ticket/19

Well there's a good clue. I wonder if MLMMJ has added any archive format options in the last five years. Doubtful. I don't see 
any such option in the docs. Nor can I see from that ticket what was done to resolve the merge issue. So...

I installed MLMMJ, added a list and a subscriber to that list, and tried to send mail to the list using mlmmj-send. That 
obviously doesn't work, and so I am currently stuck on wading through (ie. understanding) http://mlmmj.org/docs/readme-postfix/.


-- 
Lee