On February 23, 2009 at 11:54, Ngieen Siao-Mak wrote: > Did anyone try to layout a mail archive with features and layout that are > similar to Google Groups? Is it possible? What does it required?
Not sure if this will help you, but years ago, I did a custom job for Cisco to support the generation of a "discussion" pages. These were pages that contain all the messages of a thread. The nature of the contract allowed me to do the work under the GPL, so I can redistribute it. I was hoping to modify the work and repackage it for a more general audience, but never did it. However, for those interested, your can download the custom script at the following location: http://www.mhonarc.org/cisco/ v0.2.3 was the last version done. Documentation is provided describing how it works. The mha-cisco script is a good example of utilizing the simple API mhonarc provides to extend it functionality. BTW, the core, venerable code base of mhonarc makes certain things difficult, especially functionality that implies a more dynamic nature. And scalability is a problem for large archives. Mhonarc is a good example of a program that has out-grown its original intentions :) Work-arounds do exist to work with scalability issues, but they can vary depending on the operating model one wants to achieve. I've considered numerous times to redesign and re-implement mhonarc, but there has been little motivation to do so. The work will take a non-trivial amount of time, and I have other priorities. --ewh