Re: Indexed mail search?

From: Douglas O'Neal (oneal_at_dbi.udel.edu)
Date: 08/25/05

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    Dan Stromberg wrote:
    > Hi folks.
    >
    > I have a huge amount of old mail that I very much want to keep around. In
    > fact, I end up searching through it on a pretty regular basis - and these
    > searches tend to take a good half hour on a modern machine.
    >
    > Is there such a thing as *ix software that'll index your e-mail archive,
    > keep the mail around in a compressed form, and allow you to do rapid
    > queries of your archived e-mail?
    >
    > I'm not talking about something like dovecot, which only does headers -
    > and does a good job of it, too.
    >
    > I mean something that'll index message bodies, ideally with mime
    > knowledge and html, in much the same way that google indexes web pages
    > with html knowledge.
    >
    > Thanks!
    >
    >

    I have used htdig for this in the past. Setup is fairly easy - just have
    the spider run through your file system directory instead of URLs. I have
    also heard about mairix (http://www.rc0.org.uk/mairix) but have never used
    it.

    Doug 

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Dr. Douglas O'Neal
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Delaware Biotechnology Institute
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