NAME

maillog − repository for sprite-related mail, indexed by subject

DESCRIPTION

This document describes the Sprite log, a repository for sprite-related mail.  Mail sent to sprite-log will be stored in a directory in the sprite account, ~sprite/Log.  Each message is stored in its own file. 

The log subdirectory of the Sprite log contains the messages themselves, which are numbered sequentially.   The index subdirectory contains information to help users find messages in the log.  Each time a message is added to the log, its log entry number, originator, date sent, size, and  subject line are recorded in a number of files.  Each message is entered in chron, which is a chronlogically-ordered listing of all messages in the log.  In addition, the message is entered in from-user, where user is the account that sent the message. 

Finally, the message is entered in files with names corresponding to the keywords associated with the message.  If the message contains a Keywords: line, the words on that line are taken to be keywords; otherwise, the non-trivial words in the subject line are used.  Punctuation and case are ignored.  Typical keywords include “bug”, “fix”, and the names of kernel modules, libraries, and programs. 

As an example, consider a message sent from douglis to the Sprite log with the subject “bug: fs recovery”.  If the next message in the log were 00143, then the message itself would be stored in ~sprite/Log/log/00143, and a line like

00143 douglis Mon Sep 14 12:01:14 1987   13 bug: fs recovery

would be written to the files chron, from-douglis, bug, fs, and recovery in ~sprite/Log/index. 

Note: the Sprite log is currently stored under Unix. 

FILES

~sprite/Log/logmessages in the Sprite log.  ~sprite/Log/index lists of messages by keyword. 

SEE ALSO

Mail, sendmail, MH

KEYWORDS

Sprite, log, index, keyword, bug, mail

Sprite version 1.0  —  February 16, 1989