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Dana Robinson
Asked: 2009-08-07 08:21:53 +0800 CST

What's a good way to provide a searchable interface to Mailman mailing list archives?

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If you have a collection of mailing list archives from Mailman (example here) is there a good way to make them searchable from a web-based interface?

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2 Answers

  1. i've used htdig for this task with several different mailing list programs - majordomo, ecartis, and mailman.

    htdig can be used with Mailman's own pipermail, but i find the combination of mhonarc (to create a nice browsable archive - IMO far better/more flexible than pipermail) and htdig to be particularly good.

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  2. Make it public, and then just let google index them. You can even make a google custom search that will search just your website.

    Google do search quite well, and it's completly headache free.

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