[Zope] Mail archiving

[The Dragon De Monsyne]

On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Andrew M. Kuchling wrote:

> chas writes:
> >Seems like this would actually be a superb product - "mailing list archiver".
> >Threading in particular would be a great plus. 
> 
> Indeed.  From my experience writing Pipermail, I'm becoming
> increasingly convinced that it's better to create e-mail archives as
> databases instead of static files that are created by a script,
> because static files lack flexibility.  What do you do with the back
> archives when you decide to switch from quarterly to monthly, or
> monthly to weekly?  Storing things in a database & rendering them on
> the fly would grant more flexibility.  (No, I'm not volunteering to
> write anything.)

As the author/integrator of a good chunk of the MailMan webarchiving code,
I will agree with you heartily. Static files are a pain. 

PS: I am actually in the middle of writing a Zope mailinglist archiver
product called MessageBase. 
 
	-The Dragon De Monsyne