Mailing List Search function on FreeBSD website

Eric Crist ecrist at secure-computing.net
Sat Oct 23 21:22:12 PDT 2004


On Oct 23, 2004, at 11:11 PM, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:

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> Eric Crist wrote:
> | Hello all,
> |
> | How could I have a search capability similar to that of the FreeBSD
> | website?  I thought it was a feature of pipermail, but it's not 
> looking
> | like that's the case.  I'm not very good at coding, so I was hoping
> | there is some sort of port or plugin for pipermail.
>
> You can build the mailman port with htdig support (which is was what
> FreeBSD.org uses).  It's a snap to setup.  Just define WITH_HTDIG when
> building mailman, then follow the included documentation (or read
> Defaults.py) for enabling htdig with pipermail/mailman.
>
> Joe

Is this something I can simply do a make deinstall && make -DWITH_HTDIG 
reinstall without destroying my current mailing lists?  I'm new to the 
whole mailman/mailing list stuff.

thanks!
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Eric F Crist
Secure Computing Networks
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