[Mailman-Users] hyper-mail vs. pipermail??
Skip Montanaro
skip at mojam.com
Fri Feb 4 22:28:08 CET 2000
Demian> Has anyone tried to make the swap? Is there a reason not to do
Demian> this?
1. I don't think hypermail is supported any longer.
2. Unless you have a patched version, it's abysmally slow at indexing large
message collections, because it never saves earlier results. Each
message file must be opened and parsed to generate the new index. This
happens each time a new message is received.
3. It loses the raw email message (most headers, etc). I suspect pipermail
does as well, but may have some other options for archiving messages in
raw form.
Demian> And finally, what is the best way to go about making
Demian> this change?
I suggest you don't.
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