It took about 6 hours of sustained focus to figure out how to get it
working the way I wanted.
Once I was satisfied with the results, I imported all the old archives, and
reconstructed a big chunk of missing archives from the archive on the
Nabble website.
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Tom
John Abreau wrote:
I've made a first pass at setting up mhonarc.
http://blu.org/mhonarc/discuss/
Nice. I gather it had easy hooks to add your own headers/footers?
A step in the right direction.
Richard Pieri wrote:
Tom Metro wrote:
...again no integrated search engine,
That's a feature.
John Abreau wrote:
I tried customizing Mailman a number of years ago to change the
archive pages to use a php extension, in order to add the common
navbar include file, but my first few attempts were unsuccessful, and
I put it aside when I realized that my changes would be wiped out the
next
Something that could parse an mbox archive and generate a UI resembling
Blogger would be nice. If it could recognize threads and post followup
messages as comments to the thread instead of as new threads, that would be
even better. Recognizing quoted text, and
filtering or collapsing it like gmail
Hypermail and MHonArc are the go-to tools for turning mailboxes into
HTML monsters. There's Eyebrowse but that's all about throwing Java and
databases at mail files and is rather more intensive on the server side
than the mostly static output from Hypermail and MHonArc.
Making mailing list
Richard Pieri wrote:
Hypermail...
The default appearance is as bad as pipermail, and this FAQ on altering
the font:
http://www.hypermail-project.org/hypermail-faq.html#8
suggests it has a pretty antiquated presentation layer and lacks templating.
And integrating a search engine is left as an
Tom Metro wrote:
A better approach, if they'd go for it, would be getting
mail-archive.com to enhance their platform to permit some list-specific
[emedding].
I sent an email to mail-archive.com to see if they'd be willing to
support this.
I see Gmane now offers a form of rudimentary
