Bob responded regarding the use of a perl program to insert emails into a set of database tables: I talked to Rias on irc about this. The problem is the database design. To be blunt, I suck at database design :-) As Rias and I bounced ideas back and forth, I think the best ideas would be to enhance mailman to use vfolders, thus allowing a varity of backend persistent storage (db, mbox, maildir, etc). I believe there is even a vfolder api for searching, but I did not research it any further. I'm not familiar with the vfolder api. It sounds like a nice separation of logic and would probably work well as a long-term solution/feature. I'm also not familiar with the exact problem you're having, as I have been lurking for quite some time. I'll look back at it and maybe I can give a couple suggestions. Oh, did you ever roll out that database syslog script I wrote while at Real Time? I did create a sourceforge project for it, but have since not done a thing for it. -- Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> | a.k.a. ^chewie http://www.wookimus.net/ | s.k.a. gunnarr Key fingerprint = B4AB D627 9CBD 687E 7A31 1950 0CC7 0B18 206C 5AFD -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011019/055a8199/attachment.pgp