Details
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Improvement
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Status: Resolved
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Major
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Resolution: Abandoned
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None
Description
At present the reporter tool uses the mailglomper script to extract information about the number and timing of mails sent to each list.
To do this, it has to download the entire mailbox, even though it only needs the ^From_ lines.
Whilst the code attempts to avoid unnecessary downloads (by checking dates and sizes), for busy mbox files there can be a lot of network traffic.
It might make sense for some initial data extraction to be done locally and cached in a file.
This could be done as part of updating the mod_mbox indexes.
For example, the script could extract just the ^From_ lines into a separate file and store that alongside the .mbox file. Mailglomper would read the much abbreviated file instead.