Re: siesta/mariachi

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William Ross wrote:

> Has anyone tried to work with or extend the Mariachi mailing list 
> archiver? I need one, and it's a Class::DBI / TT2 system, so it ought to 
> be ideal.
> 
> However, it has just doubled the number of modules I had installed, most 
> of the associated text is in london.pm's unique enraged-toddler-genius 
> style, the mexican theme is already getting on my nerves and there's a 
> note near the bottom saying 'fix web interface'. So I thought i'd ask 
> before getting too deeply entangled...
> 
> ps. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/02/05/siesta.html

I've gotten siesta to work. It does have a lot of prereqs, but is simple 
enough to use once you get it running.

WRT archiving, I connected Siesta to Email::Store, which uses Class::DBI 
to archive mail to a database. I haven't put a frontend on it yet, but 
I'm planning to use buscador:

 >>http://siesta.unixbeard.net/svn/trunk/buscador/
 >
 > Buscador is mailing list archiver except, unlike Mariachi, it's
 > dynamically generated rather than statically.
 >
 > It uses Email::Store and a plugin architecture to provide various
 > views on your mail archive - a long with the traditional 'mailing
 > list', 'date' , 'thread', 'poster' etc etc views it can be extended
 > to show mail through other parameters as well such as all the mails
 > that containa reference to a person or place.

-- Bowen