Mailing List Search function on FreeBSD website

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Sat Oct 23 21:30:36 PDT 2004


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Eric Crist wrote:
| 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
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|
| 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.

Should be fine, but just to be safe, you should backup your current data
if you're already using mailman.

Joe

|
| thanks!
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| Eric F Crist
| Secure Computing Networks


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