On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 4:38 PM, John Cottingham <ahomeboy2...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I have upgraded from .10 to .18 and have for years looked longingly at using > mha-preview on the maillist index. The documentation seems sparse and I > haven't a clue how to implement it. > > mhonarc is now called from .procmail using the .mhrcfile. About the only > switches I use in the .mhrcfile are <reverse> and <multipg>
I recommend using a cron-based invocation model vs calling mhonarc as mail arrives. The later does not scale well for high volume lists and/or larger archives. If you intend to keep your archives for an indefinite period of time, it is recommended to break them up into periods to avoid a single mhonarc archive getting too large. mharc, <http://www.mhonarc.org/mharc/>, provides scripts that already do this, but you can always roll your own. > I assume the folks that are using mha-preview are also creating an rss index > page. RSS is an XML format. Do a search for "RSS" against the mhonarc-users archive, and you will get some useful past posts on this subject: http://www.mhonarc.org/archive/html/mhonarc-users/ mha-preview is intended to be invoked just like mhonarc. The only real difference is it provides support for the use of the $X-MSG-PREVIEW$ resource variable in layout resources to contains the first X number characters of the message body (defaults to 256). Running, mha-preview -man provides information about the script. If you plan on using it, I recommend testing it out first on some sample data. The script has not been touched in a long time. --ewh
