On 02/25/15 11:47 PM, Bruce Lilly wrote:
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 3:53 AM, Nikola M <minik...@gmail.com> wrote:

You can also download, ungzip , concatenate with cat (cat *.txt > listname)
and use in Thunderbird as local searchable mailing list archive.
If you point new mail list messages in that folder in client,  you can
have full up to date archive.

One can, if one is so inclined.  And repeat the whole process for each user
who wants to read the messages.
Hm, that is interesting remark. I was thinking of that. Maybe there could be automatically made "whole" mailing list archive available, as one file, so it could be always fresh-downloaded for local archive form Mail client inclusion. :) That might be done, to spare one from doing wget, gunzip *.gz, cat >> , mv. :) Or may be not.
And for other MUAs.  And for other OSes, if a multi-boot system.  And on
each separate system on which it is desired to read the messages.
Well you see, we sort of get used to using ZFS datasets for everyting :)
I have /export/home/username/.thunderbird as separate dataset and it can be used with ZFS on: ZFSOnLinux kernel module (all Linux distros, some even have prepared packages autocompile and installation), OSX (ZfsOnLinux port), FreeBSD and all illumos distros. So I can certainly share same Thunderbird profile between all those platforms (and Windows if using NFS or SMB share) :)

Of course, that was not your point of searchability and versatility for average Joe needing to sniff how things are going on on lists, but I couldn't stop myself to point how ZFS is multiplatform and great :P
But it's rather inconvenient to do all of that, and it takes a great deal
of local storage.
As explained, it takes absolutely no additional of local storage (especially with ZFS and network exports) plus Openindiana has automated self-controlling (one-click enabled) way of managing dataset snapshots, (Time slider) that can even take care of safeguarding your Mail client profile dir. Snapshots in 15 minutes, half hour, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly and yearly shapshots, without even attending to it yourself ;) Also snapshots use only that much additional space as there are _bits_ (clusters) changed between one and next snapshot, so it's like "backup in-place" (not real backup, but let's play with how it sounds) :)
And yes, it's in production since 2006 or so ;P

rpool/export/home/user/.thunderbird@zfs-auto-snap_monthly-2015-01-31-08h57 834M - 3.82G - rpool/export/home/user/.thunderbird@zfs-auto-snap_weekly-2015-02-07-08h57 605M - 4.77G - rpool/export/home/user/.thunderbird@zfs-auto-snap_weekly-2015-02-14-11h36 42.8M - 4.83G - rpool/export/home/user/.thunderbird@zfs-auto-snap_weekly-2015-02-22-10h28 27.5M - 4.88G - rpool/export/home/user/.thunderbird@zfs-auto-snap_frequent-2015-02-27-00h08 2.39M - 4.85G - rpool/export/home/user/.thunderbird@zfs-auto-snap_frequent-2015-02-27-00h23 1.43M - 4.85G - rpool/export/home/user/.thunderbird@zfs-auto-snap_frequent-2015-02-27-00h38 1.52M - 4.85G - rpool/export/home/user/.thunderbird@zfs-auto-snap_hourly-2015-02-27-00h53 1.32M - 4.85G -

(re-used with Linux, OSX, illumos and Windows over Nfs/Smb)
:)


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