Hi again, > Why under doc? Compare with > > /usr/share/keyrings/ > /usr/share/images/ > /usr/share/sounds/ > ... > > Not all mailinglists would be documentary in nature. Right, then something like /usr/share/mailinglists or like that would be more appropriate indeed. > Do you have a reader interface for the mbox files? Maybe the scripts > from lists.debian.org so one can browse the MLs via a webbrowser and > apache. A search function and maybe search-in-thread would be nice. > > No everyone might want to import the mbox files into their mail > client. Indeed - it's some of future project for me ;-) I have some rendering done locally, but handling threads isn't quite simple (guess you have a monthly mbox including a thread that started before this month). Browsing the archive through a webinterface will be nice and thats what comes in near future, but I don't know right now who I will implement this a) use a seperate package for each format (mbox, maildir, html) - to be created out of one source package (didn't do this before, but, I can learn :-) Side effect is that there will be muliple data in different packages b) use a singe package per archive that does conversation at install time (debconf?) c) create a single packge that does conversation into the desired format on user request (mbox->maildir, mbox->html) over all installed archive packages. d) ? A searchable version is what came in my mind while building up my archive, locally for me works a postgresql database with a full text index and some data structure for finding threads. But as a package? Hmm.. would be interesting and quite useful, but depends on the fact that a user needs a postgresql (or a differnet) database. I have worked on something smaller using a python script to search throuh the masses of mails - when this hopefully works stable in the future this will become released. I think this would be 'nicer' than to require storing all mails in a real database and as long the archives are not too huge speed should not be a problem. So many things to do.. Cheers, Jan
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