MHonarc+Wilma+gnus (nntp, nnml)

MHonarc+Wilma+gnus (nntp, nnml)

[Harry Putnam]

I recently got interested in the Mhonarc html rendering and search
tools coupled with some perl scripts called "wilma" and the Glimpse
search engine tools.  The ding archives are run with this software and
are pretty impressive.

I know even less perl than lisp (way little) so didn't want to start
hacking the scripts up to bad.  As they are, they are designed for
majordomo type output.  IE spool files with mnth and year numbering.

So I've just made the source material resemble that format and have
been able to get it working nicely. (Thanks to  Jason R Mastaler and 
 Jason L. Tibbetts).

To aim those tools at gnus output, inparticular nnml, or even better,
the nntp format that agent uses, requires that the files be reformatted
with the famous "From " line and be concatenated into a spool. 

 Gnus is probably the slowest and worst way to attain lots of
Unix-format news messages.  ( That save feature has always been a
pain). I]m using Awk/procmail (probably many other ways too) for the
conversion.  They handle it with  problem but just more work and script
writing.

I wondered if any readers here have hacked wilmas' pearl to handle single
message type output like nnml nnmh nntp.  MHonarc already does handle MH
format but not the "wilma" wrapper scripts.

It would be very nifty to have a setup where gnus feeds the messages
to wilma/MHonarc/glimpse.  It is a very powerfull search interface.

So far I'm getting good mileage by reformatting gnus messages on the
fly and leaving them untouched in ~/News/agent and ~/Mail.  But it
take lots of coniving and fiddling.  Procmail gets heavy use making
the spools.

It would be way more efficient to have wilma use the gnus format.


Anyone interested in the software, here is basic info sent out by the
folks that run the gnus archive:

Software Used:
 
1.   Perl 5      (v5.004_04)
2.   CGI.pm      (part of the 5.004 distribution)
3.   MHonArc     (v2.2.0) - e-mail-to-HTML conversion
4.   Glimpse     (v3.6)   - For the search interface
5.   Wilma       (v1.4)   - The glue holding everything together
 
References:
 
1,2. http://www.perl.com/pub/language/info/software.html
3.   http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/mhonarc.html
4.   http://glimpse.cs.arizona.edu/
5.   http://www.hpc.uh.edu/majordomo/#wilma