Exarch is a free-software tool which provides server-side dynamically generated archiving for mailing lists.

It's a concurrent to products like MHonArc, Hypermail, Pipermail

Whereas these traditional tools generate static HTML pages, Exarch uses dynamic contents

Demo

Look here for an example (it's not refreshed, I know there are bugs, for demo only) of the archive of the python mailing list (130 MB of mbox files, 80K messages): with frames or without frames.

System requirements

  • Unix
  • Python, version 2.0 or later
  • MySQL (PostgreSQL access module on the way)

    • Features

  • distributed under the GNU General Public License
  • User-defined templates
  • Indexing capabilities, powerful embedded search engine
  • MIME support
  • Mail filtering using regular expressions

    • Status

    It is not yet available for download and I'm not looking for other people to work on it right now, I decided to write it again from scratch, I'll make it available and open for public development in a couple of months.