> We're testing mailman as our list software and so far we like it.  However,
> we'd like to be able to search our archives for info...something that
> Pipermail doesn't offer.
> 
> I've finished compiling Hypermail and I'm wondering if anyone has any
> pointers in replacing pipermail with Hypermail.

I've done it with MHonArc, but I imagine that hypermail could be set
up in the same way (if you haven't considered MHonArc, you should -- I
find it to be much more extensible and particularly robust when dealing
with MIME).

   http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/mhonarc.html

There are also many search engines available to work with MHonArc,
although Wilma is probably the best of the lot (which, in my opinion,
doesn't say much for the others either).  I ended up rolling my own
glimpse-based engine for the lists at mallorn.com.

Anyhow, as far as doing this...  The way that I have things set up
is through a specialized account called 'archiver', 'listarchive', or
whatever you want.  'archiver' is subscribed to all lists, and any mail
sent to it goes through a procmail filter (either .procmailrc or via a
.forward file).  Based on certain checks, the procmail filter executes
a command that pipes the message to hypermail, mhonarc, or whatever...

Last step:  make sure that you change PUBLIC_ARCHIVE_URL and
PRIVATE_ARCHIVE_URL in $prefix/Mailman/mm_cfg.py to point to the right
location.

Chris