Jeff, A couple of belated comments back - you'll probably know the answers to these already by now.
> I don't quite follow. Let's say there are a bunch of messages for > 'sinister' in the inbox. So if it's current August 1999, we use pick > to select just those messages from August 1999. But what happens if there > are messages from July 1999 in the inbox? Do they stay there forever? > Or do we have to loop this process over each month from the dawn of > time? What am I missing here? I had the impression that's how your own code worked, by just picking out "similar" mails from the mailbox, based on destination address - seemed sensible to me and just extended this to only picking out mails for the same month. Unless I'm missing something :) > maillist.html --> most recent date index > index.html --> most recent thread index > ???????.html --> monthly index (either 'monthly.html' 'meta.html' or > some other new name.) > > This allows consistancy for folks from the outside who link to lists > at mail-archive. Even if htdig starts at maillist.html, it should > have no problem finding the monthly index, as long as there are links > to follow. Symlinks would probably be useful here. My thinking was that no files would reside at the default level where they normally do for non-monthly lists, excepting and index.html and maillist.html - so these fiels wouldn't be replacing anything, as all the MHonarc-generated .html's are shuffled into month-specific sub-directories, and where a no-monthly list would find in $list/maillist.html the latest messages index, a monthly list would just use this as a pointer to the directories below. You probably know this by now anyway: I think you're right, actually, that symlinks should be used: there should be a canonical URL for each list which points to the latest indexes: maillist.html -> YYYY-month-MM/mailist.html This should be easy to do. As you say, a cascaded monthly-specific rc file for MHonarc with links to a separate index page (my maillist.html, but named something else) would mean htdig indexes it all just fine. I forgot to think about this, as I'd done so much work on my own rc's. :) Oh and of course, your comments about ownership of code are fine: you're welcome to do as you wish with my code, such as it is. Look forward to seeing your comments, and I'll volunteer my list to act as guinea-pig if you like for monthly indexes: I'm very keen to get it working as soon as I can. Paul
