> Now, I've gone through the archives (still wading through them, so
> I may have missed something, of course), and I see references to wilma and
> how it will provide an 'index.html' front end that divides things up by
> month. Great for the end-users looking at it, but, and unless I'm missing
> something, this does nothing for the backend...we still have one great big
> directory.
You can pre-/post-process the messages with something like procmail if
youi're on a UNIX system. Here's your procmailrc file:
HOME=/mnt/WWW/home/mhonarc
UMASK=133
LOGFILE=$HOME/logfile
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
VERBOSE=off
DATE=`date +%b%y`
# The brackets contain a tab and a space
:0
* ^From[ ]+\/[^ ]+
{ FROM = $MATCH }
# archive all incoming messages to a single file
:0 c:
$HOME/incoming.archive
# create a list-based lock (why should we have to call perl to find
# out if a lock exists?), output to mhonarc
:0w: $FROM.lock
| $HOME/bin/mhonarc -add -umask 023 -rcfile rc -outdir /mnt/WWW/list/test/$DATE
# if there was an error, send the message on to root
:0
! root
Now, you can put this in your .procmailrc if procmail is your local
delivery agent, or you can call it via an alias or a .forward file.
alias:
list-archive: "/usr/bin/procmail -m /mnt/WWW/home/mhonarc/.procmailrc"
.forward:
"|IFS=' ' && p=/usr/bin/procmail && test -f $p && exec $p -Yf- ||
exit 75 #YOUR_LOGIN_NAME"
There's all kinds of easy ways to do this. For what it's worth, I'm
writing a book about procmail that covers this stuff in greater detail,
but the web-based archive chapter is still in a rewrite phase.
> The hard part, as I can see it, is to cross-link articles across
> months/years, but I don't imagine the rest would be that hard...is it? Or
> is this already available and I'm just blind?
That's really hard. The procmail method doesn't provide for that
either, and neither does Wilma.
Chris
