[Mailman-Developers] Retrieving individual messages from raw Mailman mboxes via http

[Brad Knowles]

At 5:10 PM +0800 2003/10/05, Andy Sy wrote:

>  I. Which mbox index / mail summary file format to use?

	Import into Berkeley DB hash tables.  Fast, easy, well-supported 
by many languages, robust, data can easily be extracted if necessary, 
and they can easily be reconstructed if necessary.

	Failing that, use a mailbox-directory format.

>  II. index / mail summary file performance and maintenance
>
>  Mozilla .msf files can be regenerated on the fly but
>  for a 100MB mailbox (Python-list's is 600MB+!), it already takes
>  fairly long (a few minutes).  Assuming index file corruption is
>  very rare, then this should not be a real problem.

	I would be willing to bet that Berkeley DB files could be 
regenerated even faster -- much faster.

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