[Xitami] New wiki project for Xitami

[Magnus Wedberg]

Russel Olinger wrote, On 2008-02-07 18:45:
> Not really certain how to do it because of they are stored.  I am looking at 
> the old emails now.  How are they currently stored?  It would seem to me 
> they are already in a database b/c they are sortable by 
> date/threat/subject/author - to me that implies a database must be needed. 

No, actually not -- these archivers work by making lots of static HTML 
files (!). That is true (or at least, was) for the major mailing list 
archiver software too, namely Mhonarc. Mailman's internal archiver 
(Pipermail) seems to work that way too. I have been thinking of writing 
my own parsing scripts for some other mailing lists, it's probably 
workable to use in-reply-to and references headers to construct 
threading and put it in a database, but I'm lazy... ;-)

Actually a mail-to-database-converter would be like the holy grail for 
me, making it possible to actually construct a functional forum/mailing 
list combination, but I have never found any such scripts...

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Magnus Wedberg
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