On Mon, Mar 16, 2020, at 2:28 PM, brian_carpen...@emwd.com wrote:
> I have some questions about MM3 Indexing. I am using Xapian as the
> search engine.
>
> 1. I first tested it on a small archive of 3 messages:
>
> /opt/mailman/mm/bin/django-admin update_index_one_list
> t...@subdomain-lists.com
>
> It said "Indexing 3 emails". I assume that is good and then it stopped.
> No success message at all. Is that normal? I reran the above line and
> it said "Indexing 3 emails again. Is that normal behavior as well?
That is the normal behavior, no error implies success, but a success message
might be worth adding I suppose.
There are two commands,
- `update_index`: This is meant for cron job and by default indexes only the
new emails since the last indexing operation.
- `update_index_one_list`: This is meant for manual run after you import
archives a list to Hyperkitty and indexes all the emails.
The calls to `update_index_one_list` are sort of idempotent and will do the
same operation every time. Hence the output is same each time you run it.
The calls to `update_index` depends on the number of new emails received since
last run.
>
> 2. In the fulltext_index folder is a lot of .seg files and other file
> types as well such as .glass. What are these files/folders in the
> fulltext_index folder?
>
Not sure, custom Xapian files I presume. The format of the fulltext index is
more or less Opaque. We interact with it only through the Python APIs and the
folder is mostly under the control of the Xapian library. Or whatever indexing
library HK is configured to use.
> Sorry for these questions. I am trying to learn some of the additional
> features of Mailman and am looking in detail at the search indexing. I
> have a client who is bringing over a large mbox file of archives dating
> back to 2006.
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
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thanks,
Abhilash Raj (maxking)
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