Re: mailing list archiver chewing patches

2010/2/1 Matteo Beccati <php(at)beccati(dot)com>:
> On 01/02/2010 10:26, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>
>> Does the MBOX importer support incremental loading? Because majordomo
>> spits out MBOX files for us already.
>
> Unfortunately the aoximport shell command doesn't support incremental loading.
>
>> One option could be to use SMTP with a subscription as the primary way
>> (and we could set up a dedicated relaying from the mailserver for this
>> of course, so it's not subject to graylisting or anything like that),
>> and then daily or so load the MBOX files to cover anything that was
>> lost?
>
> I guess we could write a script that parses the mbox and adds whatever is missing, as long as we keep it as a last resort if we can't make the primary delivery a fail proof.
>
> My main concern is that we'd need to overcomplicate the thread detection algorithm so that it better deals with delayed messages: as it currently works, the replies to a missing message get linked to the "grand-parent". Injecting the missing message afterwards will put it at the same level as its replies. If it happens only once in a while I guess we can live with it, but definitely not if it happens tens of times a day.

That can potentially be a problem.

Consider the case where message A it sent. Mesasge B is a response to
A, and message C is a response to B. Now assume B is held for
moderation (because the poser is not on the list, or because it trips
some other thing), then message C will definitely arrive before
message B. Is that going to cause problems with this method?

Another case where the same thing will happen is if message delivery
of B gets for example graylisted, or is just slow from sender B, but
gets quickly delivered to the author of message A (because of a direct
CC). In this case, the author of message A may respond to it (making
message D),and this will again arrive before message B because author
A is not graylisted.

So the system definitely needs to deal with out-of-order delivery.

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