Re: Not ready for 8.3

Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 04:34:56PM +0100, Dave Page wrote:
>>> How much visibility do we have into the mhonarc database? We should be
>>> able to come up with a simple redirector that would point the old
>>> mhonarc URLs to URLs for the new system...
>> <cough>database?</cough>
>
> And here I thought the reason we used tho POS was because it was the
> only archiver that used PostgreSQL as it's backend...

You're thinking of the old search engine.

>> It's a file system. It simply generates HTML (or in our case) PHP files
>> from each message in an mbox. That's one of the reasons for the monthly
>> break - without it, the directories would be unusably full of files.
>>
>> I the current URLs represent the month, and the ID of the message as it
>> comes out of the mbox I believe. We could probably write a script to
>> dump a list of message IDs, directories and mbox positions I imagine,
>> and then import that into a new database.
>
> Yeah, if the files still resemble real emails then we can probably come
> up with a way to pull the data in.

We have all the mbox files, so we can import them from there as raw
messages.

>> It's been on my list to rewrite the whole archive system for a while for
>> various reasons. There is quite a bit of crossover with the patch
>> tracker I proposed so I was hoping to look at both together.
>
> Let me know when you start on that...

Roger.

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