A mysql database, designed to use both posted dates/times and topics as the primary key may work better then a grep based solution as you said; I happen to know a small amount of relational data base design, and from my limited experience a small one table mysql database with a php front end may fit the needs of the project, then again I may be wrong. The difference is search; What do you want to search by? The initial design of the database would define its abilities and how you can interact with it, what and how you can search it and so forth, designed badly it would be un-searchable. - D On 29 Apr 2004 at 10:45, Sean McMahon wrote: > Yeah that's a good idea I don't even know how to get to the archives. Each html > page could be titled with the subject of the mail message. So then perl would > just have to search the directory with the subjects of the e-mail you're > grepping The other way do do this is to create a small database but that might > be more complex.
