After being subscribed to interesting mailing lists, lurker archives all incoming mail into a database. Old mail can also be imported. Once mail is in the database, lurker can help you search the unending noise for those gems you need to read. A web-browser is used to interact with lurker. This makes lurker useful for mailing list administrators, who can deploy lurker on the host of several related lists. Among some of the interesting featu…
After being subscribed to interesting mailing lists, lurker archives all incoming mail into a database. Old mail can also be imported. Once mail is in the database, lurker can help you search the unending noise for those gems you need to read. A web-browser is used to interact with lurker. This makes lurker useful for mailing list administrators, who can deploy lurker on the host of several related lists. Among some of the interesting features lurker offers you can find: full keyword search by body, subject, author, ...; a graphical representation of message relationships; charts of the current activity about a topic; searching lists or queries around an estimated time; signature verification to confirm the author; messages markup to find related information; etc.
To install lurker, run the following command in macOS terminal (Applications->Utilities->Terminal)
sudo port install lurker
To see what files were installed by lurker, run:
port contents lurker
To later upgrade lurker, run:
sudo port selfupdate && sudo port upgrade lurker
Reporting an issue on MacPorts Trac
The MacPorts Project uses a system called Trac to file tickets to report bugs and enhancement requests.
Though anyone may search Trac for tickets, you must have a GitHub account in order to login to Trac to create tickets.