Re: Searchable (glimpsed) Mailing List archives?

[Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com>]

>>>>> "Jason" == Jason L Tibbitts <tibbs@hpc.uh.edu> writes:

>>>>> "SH" == Shane Holder <holder@mordor.rsn.hp.com> writes:
SH> Is there an archive of the mailing list that is searchable?

Jason> Well, there's always M-s in the archive group.  Might be just a
Jason> little slow, though.

Jason> I could try to put up an index page like I do with my mailing
Jason> lists (like, say, <URL:http://www.hpc.uh.edu/fvwm/archive/>)
Jason> but it seems needless to duplicate the archiving that Steven
Jason> has done.  I'll see how much pain it would be.  (Anyone have
Jason> code to turn a big nnml folder into standard Unix MBOX files
Jason> each spanning one month?  It would save me the time to do it.)

It doesn't require code.  Use the formail program out of the procmail
distribution on each message you want to catenate, something like:

for i nnml-group/? nnml-group/?? nnml-group/??? nnml-group/????; do
	formail -d $i
done > Unix-MBOX

This will also work with MH folders.

The only magic is the -d flag for formail, which tells it to be
tolerant of input not in strict mailbox format.
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