At 17:15 08/10/2001 -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote: >On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 10:05:13AM +0200, Norbert Bollow wrote: > > > > Does Mailman provide a feature for searching archives? > > > That would be an awesome feature... > > > The mailman archives are all text based, so they should be easy to > search > > > and index. > > > > There's a patch at Sourceforge which adds this functionality. > > You can try it e.g. at http://dotgnu.org/pipermail/developers/ > >That's pretty cool. >Does this patch take into account public and private lists? >(the biggest reason I have never implemented archive search at my company is >that the archiver has to know which lists are private and the users and >their passwords before allowing a search on a private list) > >Marc >--
The following patches integrate the htdig (http://www.htdig.org/) search engine with Mailman. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=444879&group_id=103&atid=300103 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=444884&group_id=103&atid=300103 The main features of the patch, from its sourceforge summary are: 1. per list search facility with a search form on the list's TOC page. 2. maintenance of privacy of private archives which requires the user to establish their credentials via the normal private archive access before any access via htdig is allowed. 3. a common base URL for both public and private archive access via htsearch results so that htdig indices are unaffected by changing an archive from private to public and vice versa. All access to archives via htdig is controlled by a new wrapped cgi- bin script called htdig.py. 4. a new cron activated script and extra crontab entry which runs htdig regularly to maintain the per list search indices. 5. automatic creation, deletion and maintenance of htdig configuration files and such. Beyond installing htdig and telling Mailman where it is via mm_cfg you do not have to do any other setup. Well not quite you do have to set up a single per installation symlink to allow htdig to find the automatically generated per list htdig configuration files. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users