# Copyright (c) 1998 Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.org>. Berlin.
# All rights reserved.

mailindex create a HTML index for mailing list archives.

The main goals for mailindex are:

	- scalable, it should works for one gigabyte archives
	- low CPU and disk I/O usage	
	- be very fast
	- small output - don't create a HTML file for every mail in 
          the archive, instead read the mail on demand from the
          raw archive and convert the mail to HTML on the fly.
	- be simple

Unfortunately, non of the well known WWW front ends for mail archives
(mhonarc, hypermail) matched these criteria.


Mailindex was written for the FreeBSD mailing list archive,
which is currently 1022MB large (March 1999).

The mail index can be sorted by Subject, Author, Date or
reverse Date. Default is by Date.
	

Mailindex is a perl5 script. The lastest release is 1.1. Mailindex
was written by Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.org>, Berlin.

Scripts:
	mailindex 		
		Main script, 10KB perl code.

	mailindex-update-current
		Cron job to update the current FreeBSD mails
		every 5 minutes

	mailindex-update-archive
		Cron job to update the whole FreeBSD Mailing list
		archive every week.

Other Scripts and depending libraries are part of the FreeBSD
Web server and are available from 
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/www/en/cgi/

-wolfram