Once we get to it we'll use mailman for the list, exim for a mail
transport, hypermail for the archives (as we're currently doing) and
remain with htdig for searches. I think that about sums this up...
Charles Daminato
TUCOWS Product Manager (ccTLDs)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Patrick wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 02:44:44PM -0000, adam took time to write:
> > Charles Daminato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> >
> > > Already have plans to move to mailman/exim and move away from
> > > majodoromo/sendmail - it's a matter of doing a smooth switch and ensuring
> > > the archives are intact (mailman does archives, but they're different...).
> > > Soon...
> > >
> > Cool, and thanks for the reply Chuck. However - isn't there always a however -
> > Mailman's one true flaw is it's archival system (Pipermail), which - not to
> > put too fine a point on it - sucks. They're icky, and not searchable.
>
> You can use with mailman external programs to create archives.
> Or (what I've done) in a crontab launch mhonarc (the archiver) using
> the files created by mailman in mbox format with all emails in it.
> (and set mailman not to do archives by itself).
>
> I always use Mailman. I never use Pipermail and I have clean
> archives (the search part is handled by htdig since archives pages
> are just plain html).
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Patrick.
>
