[Mailman-Users] search engine? archiving old messages?

[Nigel Metheringham]

sclark at rwii.com said:
> Can a search engine be hooked up to a mailman email archive?  Would I
> be exploring new territory to attempt to do so, or have others blazed
> a trail? 

In contrast to Mr Lawrence I am using the inbuilt pipermail archiver 
with htdig, which seems work passably well.

You *do* want to add this patch which prevents the indexer indexing the 
tables of contents and other cruft which then gives you lost of false 
positives on searches.
 http://sourceforge.net/patch/index.php?func=detailpatch&patch_id=100867
&group_id=103

An example of this form of configuration can be seen at
	http://www.exim.org/

- follow the Mailing Lists link
	http://www.exim.org/maillist.html

	Nigel.
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