> I know the devs on Mailman were working on search capabilities, but > considering that their own archives are not yet searchable, I'd say they > aren't there yet! Second that Meetup is as a terrible mailing list format. > > I could go either way, assuming there is a box that is available anyway, > so we aren't adding cost by using Mailman. The search thing is a little bit > of a pain, but otoh, I do like sticking with the open source solution, plus > Mailman is written in Python! >
Right -- just saw that when I checked for search tools. ;-) Hmm... I went to a tutorial on Solr / Lucene at OSCON. One of the features I didn't know it had was the ability to extract text from documents in non-plain-text formats. MS Word and pdf were mentioned. I wonder if it can handle mbox. It is open source, though in Java. On the other hand, setting up and maintaining a Solr / Lucene system might be more work than leaving mailman up. :D (I have 'em running on my Windows laptop -- my Google Summer of Code student is attempting to get Solr / Lucene to index documents for Sahana Eden (which is written in Python).) Another option would be to read out the mbox files into flat text files, and then use Google Custom Search to add a search widget to the web site. That could search both the mailman and Google Groups archives (hmm, surely it can be pointed to Google Groups...but I haven't tried that yet). Yah, not open source. -- Pat
